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

FUTURISTS 134 ANGER POISON 138 BE A BIRD LANDLORD! 142 THE ACTOR'S PRAYER 146 IT CAN'T BE DONE 149 PROM THE CHIN UP 153 YESTERDAY 156 MINE OWN WILL COME TO ME I LIKE to repeat this magic formula over and over. It is not provable. The deepest truths of life never are. The creeds of the world, that have led men up out of barbarism into civilization, out of war into law, out of lust into love, are all in­herently dubitable. We do not reach those sublime conclu­sions that transform our lives by building Babel Towers with bricks of Logic, for the end of all such work is confusion of tongues. We fly to them by the airplanes of Faith. We believe them. We do not know them. 5 6 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS And the best things of existence are be­lieved, not known. We believe them because we are drawn to them, because something in them appeals to something in us. We believe them for much the same kind of reason that impels us to love one woman. The most usable and persuasive wisdom has never been included in the encyclopedias. It

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