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

greatest of earthly businesses, mothering, it is the spirit of the day's work that helps. To carry on so complicated and vital affair as the training of children there is needed above all that self-possession which comes only when we conceive of our work as lasting but one day. And it is when we look forward too much and keep expect­ing results that time alone can give, that we fall into the petulance or fretfulness that de­stroys the quality of our guidance. The clock has millions of tick-tocks to make, but it has a moment in which to do each one of them. The sun rises regularly to his duty, and sets at night satisfied with what increment of growth his day's work has supplied to living things. And we-we need never expect to arrive FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 95 -our business is not to arrive, it is to travel, to cover each day our allotted span, leaving all questions of ends and values and rewards to that Mind that thinks in centuries and weaves men and the labors of men into its vast fabric. Our plan is on the trestle-board, our lines are

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