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

in lighting; now they know it, and the motorman whistles as he regulates the power of ten thunderstorms. All along, humanity has been walking up to bugaboos and finding out they were absurd. 41 42 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS Strange! Men have thought fear helped morality. They tortured, imprisoned, killed, to cure criminals. They beat children. They burned heretics. Gradually they saw their folly. They are learning that crime is essentially fear, the fear of the consequences of doing right, and that you cannot put out fire with kerosene; that is you cannot cure the fear of doing right by the fear of punishment. The Romans built a temple to Fear. Fear has played a malign part in the history of religion. The most amazing creation of the human imagination is hell. There are still those who are afraid to walk under a ladder, to carry a spade through the house, and to start on a journey on a Friday. Business once was based on fear. Men thought the only way to get work done was FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 43 by slaves, and by keeping

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