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

I am a Bergsonite. I was one before I ever heard of him. I can hardly think, with-out tears, of the immense debt we owe to this man who has saved the thinking world a dozen ways. His "Essay on the Immediate Gifts of the Consciousness" demonstrates we are free, FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 59 that our actions are original and bear the' seal of our personality. In a second work, "Matter and Memory," he gives a new solu­tion to the world-old problem of the relation of spirit and body. In "Creative Evolution," his greatest work, he establishes a new the­ory of the development of life. Bergson re-moves the terrible lassitude from modern thought, by addressing himself to the secret depths of the consciousness, and drawing us away from the abuse of reasoning. He declares man to be the crown of cre­ation, that we are freed from iron necessity, that we continually leave the impress of our personality upon nature, and that we are capable of "throwing down all things that resist, and of overcoming all obstacles, per­haps even death itself." Bergson is

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