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

"They" poisoned Socrates, crucified Jesus, burnt Savonarola, persecuted Wagner. FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 39 it is this dull pressure, stolid, unintelli­gent, respectable, powerful, and brainless as the giants Fasolt and Fafner, that obstructs all reforms, resists the application of reason to art, to letters, to economics, to govern­ment, to the spiritual life of men. Every ardent idealist impinges against it as against a wall of putty. It blocks prison reform, perpetuates child labor, smites capital with blindness, and la­bor with folly, keeps us under the bondage of an absurd system of weights and mea­sures, ridicules spelling reform, delivers city politics into the hands of the boss and his organization, impedes pure-food laws, makes big business seek to bribe, intimidate, and control judges and legislatures, hinders ra­tional reform in education-and what not. The pressure! Like a vise it grips the society woman; in her straining to keep up 40 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS with others she has no time for her own life. In Europe the idealist,

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