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

Particularly in the higher realm of en­deavor, in the domain of thought and of morals, it is the impossible that is essential, dominant, needed. Conscience always points to what is be­yond our capacity. Reason invariably demonstrates that what should be done is the impractical. The world progresses only as mankind does what can't be done. The eight-hour day, says Mr. Forbes, was socialistic, anarchistic, and absurd when first advocated. Nothing could be more impos­sible. Still, it lay on the conscience of the humane employer as well as upon the desire FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 151 of the worker; and it was realized, and with-out any tremendous upheaval of the indus­tries concerned. It was once said that seven-day work could not be done away with in the steel industry. The nature of the business de­manded continuous labor. Give steel-workers a Sabbath rest? It can't be done. Yet it was done. Today not five per cent of the United States Steel Company's em­ployees work seven days a week. Against every demand of humanity it has been objected, "It can't be done."

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