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

is an air plant, a fungus growth subsisting upon the branches of the future; Democracy has its roots in the past. Socialism proclaims revolution; Democ­racy evolution. Both revolt at injustice and herald the era of equality, but the one is to be by the will of men, the other by getting into line with the deep purpose of that power in whose mind is the great universal plan. Democracy is something being wrought out now in the workshop of actual condi­tions, it is a "word" being "made flesh" by infinite pains, a lesson which a nation is la-boring good-naturedly to learn by practise. Democracy means patient readjustment of FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 63 things as they are, in order to get things as they ought to be. Socialism is fiercely im­patient for fruit, with a contemptuous disre­gard of tree and soil. Democracy is the determined effort of the New World; Socialism is the petulant ges­ture of the Old. Socialism is represented by the wish of Omar to "grasp this sorry scheme of things entire" and "remould it nearer to the heart's desire." Democracy is expressed in the lines of Tennyson:

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