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

"Don't light the light," he said. "Come and sit down. I am tired of reading. I have been now five hours in this chair. "I am watching the March of the Shad­ows. "Look! They are filling the street, crawl­ing all over the houses, rubbing out the sharp outlines of the picture everywhere. "Men are attacking with street-lamps, but 13 14 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS it is useless. They only make stronger shadows. "The dark is oozing over the sky. It has faded all the red and yellow clouds into a dull lead. "Shadows! The unconquerable shadows! Before them the roaring city becomes still. The streets empty. Men flee, take refuge a little while under artificial light, then sur­render and--sleep. Darkness at last has its way with us. "All the human race, all but a thin: edge, inhabit Shadow land. Only about a billion are alive. Billions and billions have disap­peared into oblivion. The mighty Past is all Shadow. "Think of it! Kings and bishops and conquerors, poets and lovers and adventur­ers, all so eternally quiet now, in that soundless land. The Magnificent Ones-great

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