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

Morals that aim to make us conform to present or bygone social standards are irri­tating, but a morality drawn from what society will be can impassion us, and so de­velop us. The cities of ancient times are imposing in their ruins, but I like best to wander the streets of those magnificent cities of the days to come, those dream-cities, where democ­racy expresses itself in beauty and the maj- FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 1S esty of work is beyond all that war and kingcraft ever devised. Even so with life itself. The greatest con­tribution of religion to human life is the gift of a sense of the future, of another life beyond this. Whether this be provable or no, the very presence of the notion of it in men's minds lends them a dignity and a power nothing else could induce. If, as old age comes on, we have amassed only a past, a pile of memories and failures, then life moves slowly on to tragedy; but if there looms in the consciousness a feeling of a possible future the mind finds in it a verita­ble fountain of youth. I make no bones of saying that I am, or want to be, a "futurist."

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