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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

superiority of the Moral forces and the even­tual subjugation of all Brute force. The present war is a struggle between the Moral and the Brute ideas. Civilization is not a working out of mate­rialistic laws; it is the mastery and direction of those laws by a spiritual, non-material something called Man. 21 THE KINGS U NIVERSAL democracy does not mean the wiping out of all grades among men, bringing every person down to an equality of commonplaceness. This idea is the product of ignorant and timid minds. The motive force of democracy is not envy. Democracy glowers at present-day great folk not because it does not believe in aristoc­racy, but because it does believe in real aris­tocracy, and is out of patience with humbug superiority. The plutocrat of New York, the hereditary noble of London, and the kings of Europe, we do not feel pleasant toward them simply because they have no rational right to their glory. 22 POUR MINUTE ESSAYS There always have been and will be genu­ine kings of men, leaders, rulers, all the more powerful

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