Home

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

"Yet I doubt not through the ages one in-creasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." Socialism is a phase of Democracy, one of the effects of the spirit of Democracy work­ing in men's minds. Hence we are in favor of whatever there 64 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS is in Socialism that helps along Democracy, but do not join the party because it carries a lot of European by-products for which Democracy in the United States does not care. With a noble persistence Democracy ap­plies itself to the complex and baffling task of making things better without smashing those things our fathers got from an un­toward world and bequeathed to us. America is committed to no well-tinkered scheme, to no Utopian plan, that leaves the instincts of human nature and the practical­ities of our present immaturity out of mind, but throughout her history have "Statesmen at her council met Who know the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet." 65 THE MASTER'S HAND PICTURES and Other Passages From

39 of 101 pages. Go to page: