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

and handicraft classes and puts into the field specialists to teach such work. And it has been successful in finding a market for its product." 134 FUTURISTS I F," writes Sir Francis Younghusband, "we stand a two-foot rule on end and take it to represent the period which has elapsed since man first appeared, it will be only the top inch that will represent the dis­tance of time since the dawn of civilization, and only the last eighth of an inch that will denote the period of European civilization." As far as scientists are able to judge, the earth is still in its infancy. In all probability, the human race is to continue for a million years or so. Before us, therefore, stretches out a vast future, inconceivably more influ­ential than the past. There are two classes of minds. One is dominated by the past and the other by the FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 135 future. Wherever you find two or more men gathered together you may witness the dash of these two types. There are conservatives and progressives, liberals and standpatters, orthodox

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