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

The great soul has NO BITTER­NESS. Pessimism is a fever of the small-minded. It is due not only to lack of vision, but to an inherent inability to appreciate the dominant force of goodness. Self-pity, self-depreciation, despair-these, too, are traits 3. FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 107 of commonness. The genuinely high-born nature cannot slump into them. The true aristocrat can be told by the way he acts toward his superiors and infe­riors. In the organization of society every one finds some above him in station and some below. The elect soul knows how to conduct himself toward his superiors so as to preserve his own self-respect, and toward his inferiors so as not to break down theirs. The gentleman is CLEAN-MINDED. Dirt does not stick to him. His soul cleanses itself like a cat. So it was said of Lincoln, "His heart was as broad as the world, yet it had no room in it for the memory of a wrong." The great-souled cannot retain a grudge, nor remember a slander, nor take a vicious or unclean hint. TRUTH. The real great ones never want to be appreciated at more than they are

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