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

hating war, know­ing it to be monstrous stupidity and waste, and an utterly inconclusive method of set­tling anything, is yet coerced to take his place in the ranks and try to kill the clerks and peasants of another country against whom he has no quarrel in the world. The pressure! Once it made men burn heretics and witches. Now it makes them lynch negroes. It seems sometimes to our fancy as if it were a vast, immeasurable spirit of death (monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, qui lumen ademptum) that "(doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves." THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST FEAR The campaign against Fear is the greatest movement of the race. Fear is not bred of ignorance. It is the child of half-knowledge. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." What we don't know at all we are not afraid of; as a sheet is happy, ignorant of the slaughter-house. What we half-know scares us. Men used to be afraid of electricity, seeing it only

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