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

8 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS mine. All time I spend in speculating on what it may be is wasted and breeds disap­pointment. Mine is the simpler task, just to do my work, to find the great cosmic laws and heed them, to love, and to be happy. For mine own will come to me. It is on its way. It is stepping surely down from the Future, and one day will open the door of the Present and come in. And I shall be satisfied. DAD D EAR DAD: I am writing this to you, though you have been dead thirty years. From your seat in the Place Beyond I hope you can see these lines. I feel I must say some things to you, things I didn't know when I was a boy in your house, and things I was too stupid to say. It's only now, after passing through the long, hard school of years, only now, when my own hair is gray, that I understand how you felt. I must have been a bitter trial to you. I was such an ass. I believed my own petty wisdom, and I know now how ridiculous it 9 10 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS was, compared to that calm, ripe, wholesome wisdom of yours. Most

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