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

You can't treat prisoners like human be­ings, they said, and for centuries the vile birds of horror and cruelty befouled every penitentiary. Today militant reformers are doing the impossible, and the cursed ram-parts of inhumanity are crumbling. Men could not spread religion without 152 POUR MINUTE ESSAYS quarrelings, torture, force. But it is being done. Plagues could not be prevented, the ig­norant common people could not be edu­cated, little children could not be spared from stunting labor, sweatshops could not be abolished, corporal punishment and trial by torture could not be brought to pass, slavery, duelling, and gladiatorial games could not be abated. At some time or an-other practical men held all these things im­possible. And now they sagely tell us that war cannot be evaded; nations must have war; to expect to abolish war is ideal, fanatical, theoretical, impossible. Very well. If it's impossible, let's do it. 153 FROM THE CHIN UP F ROM your chin down you are worth about a dollar and a half a day. From the chin up you are worth-any­thing. There's no limit.

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