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

To know the real aristocrat watch for these ten marks: SIMPLICITY. The aristocratic soul loves simple pleasures, not because he cannot have the complex ones, but because greatness naturally chooses simplicity. These things indicate a vulgar nature, to wit: Expensive, highly seasoned, and elaborate foods, costly or showy clothes, the wearing or owning of much jewelry, fondness of perfumes, a taste for luxury and display. The curse of great wealth is not that it is a sin, but that it usu­ally vulgarizes one's nature. SERVICE. The inborn leaning of a 1. 106 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS high soul is toward serving, of a cheap soul toward being served. The moral strength of the race is in them that work; the ills of humanity flow from its idle class. If there were no idlers there would be no war, no poverty, and no privilege. CHARACTER. A great soul exer­cises his influence over his fellows by what he is, not by what he has, nor by the posi­tion he holds. The true aristocrat is ABOVE HIS PLEASURES. He enjoys things, but he can quit any minute. The hosts of the petty-­souled are driven by their desires.

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