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

desire maybe, but it is prosti­tute's pay. You've sold yourself, and that is always a fool's bargain. Nature keeps books pitilessly. Your credit with her is good, but she collects; there is no land you can flee to and escape her bailiffs. You can cheat Nature, abuse her, lie to her, overreach her, she is very complaisant; you may do your will with her, but she never forgets; she sees to it that you pay her every cent you owe, with interest. 128 POUR MINUTE ESSAYS Every day her bloodhounds track down the men and women who owe her. The newspapers are full of their shrieks of pain, their gestures of horror. Every generation a new crop of fools comes on. They think they can beat the orderly universe. They conceive themselves to be more clever than the eternal laws. They snatch goods from Nature's store and run. They enjoy the booty, laugh, and cackle at their skill. And one by one they all come back to Na­ture's counter and pay-pay in tears, in agony, in despair; pay as fools before them have paid. There is a perpetual, persistent ignorance, as eternal as wisdom.

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