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

FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 15 Caesar, Timour and Rameses, Napoleon and French Louis-are but dim shapes against the dimmer background of unre­membered myriads. "See! The Shadows invade my room. They are under the bed, behind the ward-robe, and huddle in every corner. "As the rim of night creeps over the earth, so the rim of oblivion creeps over history. This fringe of light, the Present, continually drops off into the twilight Past. All that exists is steadily being precipitated into the non-existent. "Shadows invade the mind. We forget. Ah! we forget! Loves, hopes, work, beauty, pain, all drop and flutter down, like leaves, into the indistinguishable mold. "The Shadows swallow the creeds. What men once fought over they now smile at, or forget. FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS "The Shadows invade our bodies. The teeth go, eyes dim, legs weaken-we are on our way back to dust. Pilgrims of the Night "The Shadows! They are so silent and so inevitable." "Not a very cheerful mood you're in," I said. "Come, come," he answered, "do not in­trude your cheap

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