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

so on-you'll fill your note-book-and you can get your disappointments and grievances into three lines. Happiness, they say, is scant in this wick­ed world and hard to find. One way to find it is to look for it. 104 THE REAL ARISTOCRAT T HE idea of an aristocracy, or a superior class, has always been in the world's mind. Nobles, or high-born ones, or some sort of upper four hundred---every nation in history has had them. The Jews had their Levites, the Japanese their Samurai, the Romans their Patricians. The caste system in one form or another ex­ists today in every European country. Even our U. S. A. democracy has its plutocrats, every city its smart set, and every hamlet its upper-crusters. When there is so much smoke there must be some fire. There is a superior order of be­ings. The trouble is that those we call supe- FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 105 rior are-only so called; they are really com­mon as mud, most of them. For it is not money that makes one really superior, nor birth, nor culture, nor genius, nor intellect, nor place-one may be quite vulgar and have any of these advantages.

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