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

too much, but only by free debate can the Right be winnowed out. 18. Democracy "washes its dirty linen in public." True, but it gets it clean. Democracy is Dangerous. Arid there is no Progress without Danger. Democracy is called Vulgar, Com­mon, Cheap. The real truth is that Autoc­racy is more so, only its defects are con­cealed and fester, while Democracy's are open and are healed. 2I. Democracy is capable of a more per­fect Organization and Unity than Autoc­racy. Autocracy is built upon Caste; De­mocracy upon Humanity. "The Parliament of Man, the Feder- 22. FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 85 ation of the World," is only possible in a world of democratic nations. So long as there are Kings, Emperors, and Dynasties there can be no World Unity. Militarism is a function of Autoc­racy, Democracy functions in Law. Art, Science, and Literature will do better under Democracy than under any pro­tection and patronage they may get from Autocracy, just as plants and people grow better in the air and sunshine than in a closed room. 24. EXPERIENCE VERSUS RESULTS

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