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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of 21, by Frank Crane
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+Title: 21
+
+Author: Frank Crane
+
+Release Date: November 29, 2007 [EBook #23659]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 21 ***
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+
+
+Produced by Barbara and Bill Tozier.
+
+
+
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+21
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DR. FRANK CRANE]
+
+_"We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that
+the experience of others is as useful as our own. Why give to old
+age alone the privilege of wisdom? What would be thought of one who
+prided himself on possessing bracelets when he had lost his two arms
+in war?"_
+
+                             --_Yoritomo, the Japanese Philosopher._
+
+
+
+
+21
+
+BY
+
+DR. FRANK CRANE
+
+Being the article "If I Were Twenty-One" which originally appeared
+in the _American Magazine_.
+
+Revised by the author
+
+
+NEW YORK
+WM. H. WISE & CO.
+1930
+
+
+
+
+_Copyright, 1918, by_
+
+WM. H. WISE & CO.
+
+_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
+languages, including the Scandinavian._
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE
+CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+CHAPTER
+
+        A Foreword
+        Prelude
+     I. If I were Twenty-One I would do the next thing
+    II. If I were Twenty-One I would adjust myself
+   III. If I were Twenty-One I would take care of my body
+    IV. If I were Twenty-One I would train my mind
+     V. If I were Twenty-One I would be happy
+    VI. If I were Twenty-One I would get married
+   VII. If I were Twenty-One I would save money
+  VIII. If I were Twenty-One I would study the art of pleasing
+    IX. If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could
+        never be anything else in the world, that I would be
+        a thoroughbred
+     X. If I were Twenty-One I would make some permanent, amicable
+        arrangement with my conscience
+
+
+
+
+A FOREWORD
+
+_The following note, by the editor of the _American Magazine_,
+appeared in conjunction with the publication of this story in that
+magazine:_
+
+
+In most of the biggest cities of the United States, from New York
+and Chicago down, you will find people who, every night of their
+lives, watch for and read in their evening paper an editorial by
+Frank Crane. These editorials are syndicated in a chain of
+thirty-eight newspapers, which reach many millions of readers. The
+grip which Crane has on these readers is tremendous. The reason is
+that the man has plenty of sensible ideas, which he presents simply
+and forcibly so that people get hold of them.
+
+In reality, Crane is a wonderful preacher. Years ago, in fact, he
+was the pastor of a great church in Chicago. But he left the pulpit
+and took up writing because he had the ability to interest millions,
+and could reach them only by means of the printing press.
+
+Doctor Crane lives in New York and does most of his work there.
+
+
+
+
+PRELUDE
+
+The voyager entering a new country will listen with attention to the
+traveller who is just returning from its exploration; and the young
+warrior buckling on his armour may be benefited by the experiences
+of the old warrior who is laying his armour off. I have climbed the
+Hill of Life, and am past the summit, _I suppose_, and perhaps it
+may help those just venturing the first incline to know what I think
+I would do if I had it to do over.
+
+I have lived an average life. I have had the same kind of follies,
+fears, and fires my twenty-one-year-old reader has. I have failed
+often and bitterly. I have loved and hated, lost and won, done some
+good deeds and many bad ones. I have had some measure of success and
+I have made about every kind of mistake there is to make. In other
+words, I have lived a full, active, human life, and have got thus
+far safely along.
+
+I am on the shady side of fifty. As people grow old they accumulate
+two kinds of spiritual supplies: one, a pile of doubts,
+questionings, and mysteries; and the other, a much smaller pile of
+positive conclusions. There is a great temptation to expatiate upon
+the former subjects, for negative and critical statements have a
+seductive appearance of depth and much more of a flavour of wisdom
+than clear and succinct declarations. But I will endeavour to resist
+this temptation, and will set down, as concisely as I can, some of
+the positive convictions I have gained.
+
+For the sake of orderly thought, I will make Ten Points. They might
+of course just as well be six points or forty, but ten seems to be
+the number most easily remembered, since we have ten fingers, first
+and "handiest" of counters.
+
+
+
+
+21
+
+
+I
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD "DO THE NEXT THING"
+
+
+The first duty of a human being in this world is to take himself off
+other people's backs. I would go to work at something for which my
+fellow men would be willing to pay. I would not wait for an Ideal
+Job. The only ideal job I ever heard of was the one some other
+fellow had.
+
+It is quite important to find the best thing to do. It is much more
+important to find something to do. If I were a young artist, I would
+paint soap advertisements, if that were all opportunity offered,
+until I got ahead enough to indulge in the painting of madonnas and
+landscapes. If I were a young musician, I would rather play in a
+street band than not at all. If I were a young writer, I would do
+hack work, if necessary, until I became able to write the Great
+American Novel.
+
+I would go to work. Nothing in all this world I have found is so
+good as work.
+
+I believe in the wage system as the best and most practical means of
+coördinating human effort. What spoils it is the large indigestible
+lumps of unearned money that, because of laws that originated in
+special privilege, are injected into the body politic, by
+inheritance and other legal artificialities.
+
+If I were twenty-one I would resolve to take no dollar for which I
+had not contributed something in the world's work. If a
+philanthropist gave me a million dollars I would decline it. If a
+rich father or uncle left me a fortune, I would hand it over to the
+city treasury. All great wealth units come, directly or indirectly,
+from the people and should go to them. All inheritance should be
+limited to, say, $100,000. If Government would do that there would
+be no trouble with the wage system.
+
+If I were twenty-one I would keep clean of endowed money. The
+happiest people I have known have been those whose bread and butter
+depended upon their daily exertion.
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD ADJUST MYSELF
+
+
+More people I have known have suffered because they did not know how
+to adjust themselves than for any other reason. And the
+happiest-hearted people I have met have been those that have the
+knack of adapting themselves to whatever happens.
+
+I would begin with my relatives. While I might easily conceive a
+better set of uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, and so on, yet
+Destiny gave me precisely the relatives I need. I may not want them,
+but I need them. So of my friends and acquaintances and fellow
+workmen. Every man's life is a plan of God. Fate brings to me the
+very souls out of the unknown that I ought to know. If I cannot get
+along with them, be happy and appreciated, I could not get along
+with another set of my own picking. A man who is looking for ideal
+human beings to make up his circle of acquaintances would as well go
+at once and jump into the river.
+
+The God of Things as They Ought to Be is a humbug. There is but one
+God, and He is the God of Things as They Are.
+
+Half of my problem is Me; the other half is Circumstances. My task
+is to bring results out of the combination of the two.
+
+Life is not a science, to be learned; it is an art, to be practised.
+Ability comes by doing. Wisdom comes not from others; it is a
+secretion of experience.
+
+Life is not like a problem in arithmetic, to be solved by learning
+the rule; it is more like a puzzle of blocks, or wire rings--you
+just keep trying one way after another, until finally you succeed,
+maybe.
+
+I think it was Josh Billings who said that in the Game of Life, as
+in a game of cards, we have to play the cards dealt to us; and the
+good player is not the one who always wins, but the one who plays a
+poor hand well.
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD TAKE CARE OF MY BODY
+
+
+The comfort and efficiency of my days depend fundamentally upon the
+condition of this physical machine I am housed in. I would look out
+for it as carefully as I attend to my automobile, so that it might
+perform its functions smoothly and with the minimum of trouble.
+
+To this end I would note the four X's. They are Examination,
+Excretion, Exercise, Excess.
+
+EXAMINATION: I would have my body thoroughly inspected by
+intelligent scientists once a year. I do not believe in thinking too
+much about one's health, but I believe in finding out the facts, and
+particularly the weaknesses, of one's mechanism, before one proceeds
+to forget it.
+
+EXCRETION: By far the most important item to attend to in regard to
+the body is the waste pipes, including the colon, the bladder, and
+the pores. Most diseases have their origin in the colon. I would see
+to it that it was thoroughly cleaned every day. In addition, I would
+drink plenty of water, and would take some form of exercise every
+day that would induce perspiration. Most of my sicknesses have come
+from self-poisoning, and I would make it my main care to eliminate
+the waste.
+
+EXERCISE: I would, if I were twenty-one, take up some daily system
+of exercise that would bring into play all the voluntary muscles of
+the body, and especially those which from my occupation tend to
+disuse. I would devote half an hour to an hour daily to this
+purpose.
+
+EXCESS: I would take no stimulant of any kind whatsoever. Whatever
+whips the body up to excess destroys the efficiency of the organism.
+Hence I would not touch alcoholic drinks in any form. If one never
+begins with alcohol he can find much more physical pleasure and
+power without it. The day of alcohol is past, with intelligent
+people. Science has condemned it as a food. Business has banned it.
+It remains only as the folly of the weak and fatuous.
+
+I would drink no tea or coffee, as these are stimulants and not
+foods. Neither would I use tobacco. The healthy human body will
+furnish more of the joy of life, if it is not abused, than can be
+given by any of the artificial tonics which the ignorance and
+weakness of men have discovered.
+
+If I were twenty-one, all this!
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD TRAIN MY MIND
+
+
+I would realize that my eventual success depends mostly upon the
+quality and power of my brain. Hence I would train it so as to get
+the best out of it.
+
+Most of the failures I have seen, especially in professional life,
+have been due to mental laziness. I was a preacher for years, and
+found out that the greatest curse of the ministry is laziness. It is
+probably the same among lawyers and physicians. It certainly is so
+among actors and writers. Hence, I would let no day pass without its
+period of hard, keen, mental exertion so that my mind would be
+always as a steel spring, or like a well-oiled engine, ready,
+resilient, and powerful.
+
+And in this connection I would recognize that repetition is better
+than effort. Mastery, perfection, the doing of difficult things with
+ease and precision, depend more upon doing things over and over than
+upon putting forth great effort.
+
+I would especially purge myself as far as possible of intellectual
+cowardice and intellectual dishonesty. By intellectual dishonesty I
+mean what is called expediency; that is, forming, or adhering to, an
+opinion, not because we are convinced of its truth, but because of
+the effect it will have. A mind should, at twenty-one, marry Truth,
+and "cleave only unto her, till death do them part, for better, for
+worse."
+
+By intellectual cowardice I mean all superstitions, premonitions,
+and other forms of mental paralysis or panic caused by what is
+vague. To heed signs, omens, cryptic sayings, and all talk of fate
+and luck, is nothing but mental dirt. I have seen many bright minds
+sullied by it. It is worthy only of the mind of an ignorant savage.
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD BE HAPPY
+
+
+By this I imply that any one can be happy if he will. Happiness does
+not depend on circumstances, but upon Me.
+
+This is perhaps the greatest truth in the world, and the one most
+persistently disbelieved.
+
+Happiness, said Carlyle, is as the value of a common fraction, which
+results from dividing the numerator by the denominator. The
+numerator, in life, is What We Have. The denominator is What We
+Think We Ought to Have. Mankind may be divided into two classes:
+Fools and Wise. The fools are eternally trying to get happiness by
+multiplying the numerator, the wise divide the denominator. They
+both come to the same--only one you can do and the other is
+impossible.
+
+If you have only one thousand dollars and think you ought to have
+two thousand dollars, the answer is one thousand divided by two
+thousand, which is one half. Go and get another thousand and you
+have two thousand divided by two thousand, which is one; you have
+doubled your contentment. But the trouble is that in human affairs
+as you multiply your numerator you unconsciously multiply your
+denominator at the same time, and you get nowhere. By the time your
+supply reaches two thousand dollars your wants have risen to
+twenty-five hundred dollars.
+
+How much easier simply to reduce your Notion of What You Ought to
+Have. Get your idea down to one thousand, which you can easily do if
+you know the art of self-mastery, and you have one thousand divided
+by one thousand, which is one, and a much simpler and more sensible
+process than that of trying to get another one thousand dollars.
+
+This is the most valuable secret of life. Nothing is of more worth
+to the youth than to awake to the truth that he can change his
+wants.
+
+Not only all happiness, but all culture, all spiritual growth, all
+real, inward success, is a process of changing one's wants.
+
+So if I were twenty-one I would make up my mind to be happy. You get
+about what is coming to you, in any event, in this world, and
+happiness and misery depend on how you take it; why not be happy?
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD GET MARRIED
+
+
+I would not wait until I became able to support a wife. I would
+marry while poor, and marry a poor girl. I have seen all kinds of
+wives, and by far the greatest number of successful ones were those
+that married poor.
+
+Any man of twenty-one has a better chance for happiness, moral
+stature, and earthly success, if married than if unmarried.
+
+I married young, and poor as Job's turkey. I have been in some hard
+places, seen poverty and trial, and I have had more than my share of
+success, but in not one instance, either of failure or triumph,
+would I have been better off single. My partner in this task of
+living has doubled every joy and halved every defeat.
+
+There's a deal of discussion over sex problems. There is but one
+wholesome, normal, practical, and God-blessed solution to the sex
+question, and that is the loyal love of one man and one woman.
+
+Many young people play the fool and marry the wrong person, but my
+observation has been that "there's no fool like the old fool," that
+the longer marriage is postponed the greater are the chances of
+mistake, and that those couples are the most successful in matrimony
+who begin in youth and grow old together.
+
+In choosing a wife I would insist on three qualifications:
+
+1. She should be healthy. It is all well enough to admire an
+invalid, respect and adore her, but a healthy, live man needs a
+healthy woman for his companion, if he would save himself a thousand
+ills.
+
+2. She should have good common sense. No matter how pretty and
+charming a fool may be, and some of them are wonderfully winning, it
+does not pay to marry her. Someone has said that pretty women with
+no sense are like a certain cheap automobile: they are all right to
+run around with, but you don't want to own one.
+
+And 3. She should be cheerful. A sunny, brave, bright disposition is
+a wife's best dowry.
+
+As to money, or station in life, or cleverness, or good looks, they
+should not enter at all into the matter. If I could find a girl,
+healthy, sensible, and cheerful, and if I loved her, I'd marry her,
+if I were twenty-one.
+
+
+
+
+VII
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD SAVE MONEY
+
+
+Money has a deal to do with contentment in this workaday world, and
+I'd have some of my own. There isn't a human being but could save a
+little. Every man, in America at least, could live on nine tenths of
+what he does live on, and save the other tenth. And the man who
+regularly saves no money is a fool, just a plain fool, whether he be
+an actor getting one thousand dollars a week or a ditch-digger
+getting one dollar a day.
+
+And I would get my life insured. Life insurance is the most
+practical way for a young man, especially if he be a professional
+man, or any one not gifted with the knack of making money, to
+achieve financial comfort. The life insurance companies are as safe
+as any money institution can be. You are compelled to save in order
+to pay your premiums, and you probably need that sort of whip. And
+those dependent upon you are protected against the financial
+distress that would be caused by your death. I believe life
+insurance to be the best way to save money, at least for one who
+knows little about money.
+
+
+
+
+VIII
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD STUDY THE ART OF PLEASING
+
+
+Much of the content from life is due to having pleasant people
+around you. Hence I would form habits and cultivate manners that
+would please them.
+
+For instance, I would make my personal appearance as attractive as
+possible. I would look clean, well-dressed, and altogether as
+engaging as the material I had to work with would allow.
+
+I would be punctual. To keep people waiting is simply insolent
+egotism.
+
+I would, if my voice were unpleasant, have it cultivated until it
+became agreeable in tone. I would speak low. I would not mumble, but
+learn the art of clear, distinct speech. It is very trying to
+associate with persons who talk so that it is a constant effort to
+understand their words.
+
+I would learn the art of conversation, of small talk. I would equip
+myself to be able to entertain the grouchiest, most blasé people.
+For there is hardly a business in the world in which it is not a
+great advantage to be able to converse entertainingly.
+
+The secret of being a good conversationalist is probably a genuine,
+unselfish interest in others. That and practice. It consists more in
+making the other person talk than in talking yourself.
+
+I would learn how to write so that it would not burden people to
+read it. In this matter, one hint: The English language is composed
+of separate letters, hence, when you have written one letter, if you
+will move your pen along before you write the next we shall be able,
+probably, to discover what you intend, no matter how imperfectly you
+compose your separate letters.
+
+I would not argue. I never knew one person in my life that was
+convinced by argument. Discuss, yes; but not argue. The difference
+is this: in discussion you are searching for the truth, and in
+argument you want to prove that you are right. In discussion,
+therefore, you are anxious to know your neighbour's views, and you
+listen to him. In argument, you don't care anything about his
+opinions, you want him to hear yours; hence, while he's talking you
+are simply thinking over what you are going to say as soon as you
+get a chance.
+
+Altogether, I would try to make my personality pleasing, so that
+people would in turn endeavour to be pleasing to me.
+
+
+
+
+IX
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD DETERMINE, EVEN IF I COULD NEVER BE
+ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, THAT I WOULD BE A THOROUGHBRED
+
+
+Thoroughbred, as it is currently used, is a word rather difficult to
+define, perhaps entirely non-definable. Yet we all know what it
+means--it is like Love.
+
+But it implies being several things: One, being a good sport, by
+which I mean the kind of a man that does not whine when he fails,
+but gets up smiling and tackles it again, the kind of man whose fund
+of cheer and courage does not depend upon success, but keeps brave
+and sweet even in failure.
+
+Let me quote what I have written elsewhere on this point:
+
+    In one of the plays of this season, "The Very Minute," one
+    of the characters says something to this effect: You go on
+    till you can go no further, you reach the limit of human
+    endurance, and then--you hold on another minute, and that's
+    the minute that counts.
+
+    The idea is a good one. That last minute, the other side of
+    the breaking point, is worth thinking about.
+
+    It is that which marks the thoroughbred.
+
+    There is a something in the hundredth man that bespeaks a
+    finer quality. It is unconquerableness, heroism,
+    stick-to-it-iveness, or whatever you have a mind to call it.
+
+    We have a way of attributing this to breeding, after the
+    analogy of horses and dogs; but while there's something in
+    blood I doubt if it is a very trustworthy guaranty of
+    excellence. So many vigorous parents have children that are
+    morally spindling, and so many surprising samples of
+    superiority come from common stock, that heredity is far
+    from dependable.
+
+    But the quality exists, no matter how you account for it--a
+    certain toughness of moral fibre, an indestructibility of
+    purpose.
+
+    Any mind is over matter, but there are some wills so
+    imperial, so dominant over the body, that they keep it from
+    collapse even after its strength is spent.
+
+    We see it physically in the prize fighter who "doesn't know
+    when he is beaten," in the race horse that throws an
+    unexpected dash into the last stretch even after his last
+    ounce of force is gone, in the Spartan soldier who exclaimed
+    "If I fall I fight on my knees."
+
+    Of all human qualities that have lit up the sombreness of
+    this tragic earth, I count this, of being a thoroughbred,
+    the happiest.
+
+    It has saved more souls than penance and punishment, it has
+    rescued more business enterprises than shrewdness, it has
+    won more battles and more games, and altogether felicitously
+    loosed more hard knots in the tangled skein of destiny than
+    any other virtue.
+
+    Most people are quitters. They reach the limit. They are
+    familiar with the last straw.
+
+    But the hundredth man is a thoroughbred. You cannot corner
+    him. He will not give up. He cannot find the word "fail" in
+    his lexicon. He has never learned to whine.
+
+    What shall we do with him? There's nothing to do but to hand
+    him success. It's just as well to deliver him the prize, for
+    he will get it eventually. There's no use trying to drown
+    him, for he won't sink.
+
+    There's only one creature in the world better than the man
+    who is a thoroughbred. It is the woman who is a
+    thoroughbred.
+
+
+
+
+X
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD MAKE SOME PERMANENT, AMICABLE
+ARRANGEMENT WITH MY CONSCIENCE
+
+
+God, Duty, Death, and Moral Responsibility are huge facts which no
+life can escape. They are the external sphinxes by the road of every
+man's existence. He must frame some sort of an answer to them.
+
+It may please the reader to know how I have answered them. It is
+very simple.
+
+I am familiar, to some extent, with most of the religions, cults,
+and creeds of mankind. There are certain points common to every
+decent religion, for in every kind of church you are taught to be
+honest, pure-minded, unselfish, reverent, brave, loyal, and the
+like.
+
+These elements of religion may be called the Great Common Divisor of
+all faiths.
+
+This G. C. D. is my religion. It is what more than fifty years of
+thought and experience has winnowed out for me. It is my religion.
+And I think I glimpse what Emerson meant when he wrote that "all
+good men are of one religion."
+
+And the matter can be reduced to yet plainer terms. There is but
+"one thing needful," and there's no use being "careful and troubled
+about many things." That one thing is to _do right_.
+
+To do Right and not Wrong will save any man's soul, and if he
+believes any doctrine that implies doing wrong he is lost.
+
+So, let a man of twenty-one resolve, and keep his purpose, that, no
+matter what comes, no matter how mixed his theology may be, no
+matter what may be the rewards of wrong-doing, or the perils and
+losses of right-doing, he will do right; then, if there is any moral
+law in the universe, that man must sometime, somewhere, arrive at
+his inward triumph, his spiritual victory and peace.
+
+And the corollary of this is that if I have done wrong the best and
+only way to cure it is to quit doing wrong and begin to do right. If
+any man will stick to this, make it his anchor in times of storm,
+his pole-star in nights of uncertainty, he will cast out of his life
+that which is life's greatest enemy--Fear. He need not fear man nor
+woman, nor governments nor mischief-makers, nor the devil nor God.
+He will be able to say with the accent of sincerity that word of
+William Ernest Henley, to me the greatest spiritual declaration in
+any language:
+
+  Out of the night that covers me,
+    Black as the pit from Pole to Pole,
+  I thank whatever gods may be
+    For my unconquerable soul.
+
+  In the fell clutch of circumstance
+    I have not winced nor cried aloud,
+  Beneath the bludgeonings of chance
+    My head is bloody, but unbowed.
+
+  It matters not how strait the gate,
+    How charged with punishments the scroll,
+  I am the master of my fate,
+    I am the captain of my soul.
+
+Let me repeat that I have not been telling what I did with the
+implication that the youth of twenty-one would do well to follow me.
+I did not do all these things. Far from it! I wish I had. I only say
+that if I were twenty-one, as I now see life, I would do as I have
+here suggested. But perhaps I would not. I might go about barking my
+shins and burning my fingers, making idiotic experiments in the
+endeavour to prove that I was an exception to all the rules, and
+knew a little more than all the ancients. So let not the young man
+be discouraged if he has committed follies; for there seems to
+emerge a peculiar and vivid wisdom from error, from making an ass of
+one's self, and all that, more useful to one's own life than any
+wisdom he can get from sages or copybooks.
+
+In what I have written I have not tried to indicate the art of
+"getting on," or of acquiring riches or position. These usually are
+what is meant by success. But success is of two kinds, outward and
+inward, or apparent and real. Outward success may depend somewhat
+upon what is in you, but it depends more upon luck. It is a gambling
+game. And it is hardly worth a strong man's while. Inward and real
+success, on the contrary, is not an affair of chance at all, but is
+as certain as any natural law. Any human being that will observe the
+laws of life as carefully as successful business men observe the
+laws of business will come to that inward poise and triumph which is
+life's happiest crown, as certainly as the stars move in their
+courses.
+
+I would, therefore, if I were twenty-one, study the art of life. It
+is good to know arithmetic and geography and bookkeeping and all
+practical matters, but it is better to know how to live, how to
+spend your day so that at the end of it you shall be content, how to
+spend your life so that you feel it has been worth while.
+
+
+
+
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+	<div id="the_beginning">&nbsp;</div>
+	<p class="internal_title"><a class="pagenum" id="pagei" title="i"></a>21</p>
+	<div id="frontispiece">
+		<a class="pagenum" id="pageii" title="ii"></a>
+		<img src="images/author.jpg" width="300" height="477" alt="Author" />
+		<p class="caption">DR. FRANK CRANE</p>
+		<div class="epigram">
+			<p>&#8220;We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to
+			be persuaded that the experience of others is as
+			useful as our own. Why give to old age alone
+			the privilege of wisdom? What would be thought
+			of one who prided himself on possessing bracelets
+			when he had lost his two arms in war?&#8221;</p>
+			<p class="citation">&#8212;Yoritomo, the Japanese Philosopher.</p>
+		</div>
+	</div>
+	<div id="title_page">
+		<h1 class="title"><a class="pagenum" id="pageiii" title="iii"></a>21</h1>
+		<p class="author"><span class="stopword">BY</span><br />
+			DR. FRANK CRANE</p>
+		<p class="blurb">Being the article &#8220;If I Were Twenty-One&#8221; <br />
+			which originally appeared in the
+			<cite>American Magazine</cite></p>
+		<p>Revised by the author</p>
+		<p class="publication_city">New York</p>
+		<p class="publisher">WM. H. WISE &amp; CO.</p>
+		<p class="publish_date">1930</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="copyright_page">
+		<p class="copyright_1"><a class="pagenum" id="pageiv" title="iv"></a>Copyright, 1918, by <br />
+		<span class="holder_1">WM. H. WISE &amp; CO.</span></p>
+		<p class="rights_statement">All rights reserved, including that of
+		translation into foreign languages,
+		including the Scandinavian.</p>
+		<p class="copyright_2">Copyright, 1917, by the <br />
+		<span class="holder_2">Crowell Publishing Company</span></p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="contents">
+		<h2 class="section_title"><a class="pagenum" id="pagev" title="v"></a>CONTENTS</h2>
+		<p>CHAPTER</p>
+		<ul>
+			<li><a href="#foreward">A Foreword</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#prelude">Prelude</a></li>
+		</ul>
+		<ol>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_i">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />do the next thing</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_ii">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />adjust myself</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_iii">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />take care of my body</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_iv">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />train my mind</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_v">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />be happy</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_vi">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />get married</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_vii">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />save money</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_viii">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />study the art of pleasing</a></li>
+			<li><a class="pagenum" id="pagevi" title="vi"></a><a href="#chapter_ix">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred</a></li>
+			<li><a href="#chapter_x">If I were Twenty-One I would <br />make some permanent, amicable arrangement with my conscience</a></li>
+		</ol>
+	</div>
+	<div  id="foreward">
+		<h2 class="section_title"><a class="pagenum" id="pagevii" title="vii"></a>A FOREWORD</h2>
+
+		<p class="introduction">The following note, by the editor
+		of the <em>American Magazine</em>, appeared
+		in conjunction with the publication
+		of this story in that magazine:</p>
+
+		<p>In most of the biggest cities of
+		the United States, from New York
+		and Chicago down, you will find
+		people who, every night of their
+		lives, watch for and read in their
+		evening paper an editorial by
+		Frank Crane. These editorials
+		are syndicated in a chain of thirty-eight
+		newspapers, which reach
+		many millions of readers. The
+		grip which Crane has on these
+		<a class="pagenum" id="pageviii" title="viii"></a>readers is tremendous. The reason
+		is that the man has plenty of
+		sensible ideas, which he presents
+		simply and forcibly so that people
+		get hold of them.</p>
+
+		<p>In reality, Crane is a wonderful
+		preacher. Years ago, in fact, he
+		was the pastor of a great church
+		in Chicago. But he left the pulpit
+		and took up writing because he
+		had the ability to interest millions,
+		and could reach them only by
+		means of the printing press.</p>
+
+		<p>Doctor Crane lives in New York
+		and does most of his work there.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="prelude">
+		<h2 class="section_title"><a class="pagenum" id="pageix" title="ix"></a>PRELUDE</h2>
+
+		<p>The voyager entering a new
+		country will listen with attention
+		to the traveller who is just returning
+		from its exploration; and the
+		young warrior buckling on his
+		armour may be benefited by the
+		experiences of the old warrior who
+		is laying his armour off. I have
+		climbed the Hill of Life, and am
+		past the summit, <em>I suppose</em>, and
+		perhaps it may help those just
+		venturing the first incline to know
+		what I think I would do if I had
+		it to do over.</p>
+
+		<p>I have lived an average life. I
+		have had the same kind of follies,
+		<a class="pagenum" id="pagex" title="x"></a>fears, and fires my twenty-one-year-old
+		reader has. I have failed
+		often and bitterly. I have loved
+		and hated, lost and won, done
+		some good deeds and many bad
+		ones. I have had some measure
+		of success and I have made about
+		every kind of mistake there is to
+		make. In other words, I have lived
+		a full, active, human life, and have
+		got thus far safely along.</p>
+
+		<p>I am on the shady side of fifty.
+		As people grow old they accumulate
+		two kinds of spiritual supplies:
+		one, a pile of doubts, questionings,
+		and mysteries; and the other, a
+		much smaller pile of positive conclusions.
+		There is a great temptation
+		to expatiate upon the former
+		subjects, for negative and critical
+		statements have a seductive appearance
+		<a class="pagenum" id="pagexi" title="xi"></a>of depth and much more
+		of a flavour of wisdom than clear
+		and succinct declarations. But I
+		will endeavour to resist this temptation,
+		and will set down, as concisely
+		as I can, some of the positive
+		convictions I have gained.</p>
+
+		<p>For the sake of orderly thought,
+		I will make Ten Points. They
+		might of course just as well be
+		six points or forty, but ten seems
+		to be the number most easily
+		remembered, since we have ten
+		fingers, first and &#8220;handiest&#8221; of
+		counters.</p>
+
+		<!-- <a class="pagenum" id="pagexii" title="xii"></a>[Blank Page] -->
+	</div>
+	<div id="chapter_i">
+		<!-- <a class="pagenum" id="page1" title="1"></a>21</p> Left out because it's redundant-->
+		<!-- <a class="pagenum" id="page2" title="2"></a>[Blank Page] -->
+
+		<p class="internal_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page3" title="3"></a>21</p>
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><span class="chapter_number">I</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		&#8220;DO THE NEXT THING&#8221;</h2>
+
+		<p>The first duty of a human being
+		in this world is to take himself
+		off other people&#8217;s backs. I would
+		go to work at something for which
+		my fellow men would be willing to
+		pay. I would not wait for an Ideal
+		Job. The only ideal job I ever
+		heard of was the one some other
+		fellow had.</p>
+
+		<p>It is quite important to find the
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page4" title="4"></a>best thing to do. It is much more
+		important to find something to
+		do. If I were a young artist, I
+		would paint soap advertisements,
+		if that were all opportunity offered,
+		until I got ahead enough to indulge
+		in the painting of madonnas and
+		landscapes. If I were a young
+		musician, I would rather play in
+		a street band than not at all. If
+		I were a young writer, I would do
+		hack work, if necessary, until I
+		became able to write the Great
+		American Novel.</p>
+
+		<p>I would go to work. Nothing
+		in all this world I have found is
+		so good as work.</p>
+
+		<p>I believe in the wage system as
+		the best and most practical means
+		of co&ouml;rdinating human effort.
+		What spoils it is the large indigestible
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page5" title="5"></a>lumps of unearned money
+		that, because of laws that originated
+		in special privilege, are injected
+		into the body politic, by
+		inheritance and other legal artificialities.</p>
+
+		<p>If I were twenty-one I would
+		resolve to take no dollar for which
+		I had not contributed something
+		in the world&#8217;s work. If a philanthropist
+		gave me a million dollars
+		I would decline it. If a rich
+		father or uncle left me a fortune,
+		I would hand it over to the city
+		treasury. All great wealth units
+		come, directly or indirectly, from
+		the people and should go to them.
+		All inheritance should be limited
+		to, say, $100,000. If Government
+		would do that there would be no
+		trouble with the wage system.</p>
+
+		<p><a class="pagenum" id="page6" title="6"></a>If I were twenty-one I would
+		keep clean of endowed money.
+		The happiest people I have known
+		have been those whose bread and
+		butter depended upon their daily
+		exertion.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div  id="chapter_ii">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page7" title="7"></a><span class="chapter_number">II</span><br />
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		ADJUST MYSELF</h2>
+
+		<p>More people I have known have
+		suffered because they did not know
+		how to adjust themselves than for
+		any other reason. And the happiest-hearted
+		people I have met have
+		been those that have the knack
+		of adapting themselves to whatever
+		happens.</p>
+
+		<p>I would begin with my relatives.
+		While I might easily conceive a
+		better set of uncles, aunts, cousins,
+		brothers, and so on, yet Destiny
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page8" title="8"></a>gave me precisely the relatives I
+		need. I may not want them, but I
+		need them. So of my friends and
+		acquaintances and fellow workmen.
+		Every man&#8217;s life is a plan of
+		God. Fate brings to me the very
+		souls out of the unknown that I
+		ought to know. If I cannot get
+		along with them, be happy and
+		appreciated, I could not get along
+		with another set of my own picking.
+		A man who is looking for ideal
+		human beings to make up his circle
+		of acquaintances would as well go
+		at once and jump into the river.</p>
+
+		<p>The God of Things as They
+		Ought to Be is a humbug. There
+		is but one God, and He is the
+		God of Things as They Are.</p>
+
+		<p>Half of my problem is Me; the
+		other half is Circumstances. My
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page9" title="9"></a>task is to bring results out of the
+		combination of the two.</p>
+
+		<p>Life is not a science, to be
+		learned; it is an art, to be practised.
+		Ability comes by doing.
+		Wisdom comes not from others; it
+		is a secretion of experience.</p>
+
+		<p>Life is not like a problem in
+		arithmetic, to be solved by learning
+		the rule; it is more like a puzzle
+		of blocks, or wire rings&#8212;you
+		just keep trying one way after
+		another, until finally you succeed,
+		maybe.</p>
+
+		<p>I think it was Josh Billings who
+		said that in the Game of Life, as
+		in a game of cards, we have to
+		play the cards dealt to us; and the
+		good player is not the one who always
+		wins, but the one who plays
+		a poor hand well.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div  id="chapter_iii">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page10" title="10"></a><span class="chapter_number">III</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		TAKE CARE OF MY BODY</h2>
+
+		<p>The comfort and efficiency of
+		my days depend fundamentally
+		upon the condition of this physical
+		machine I am housed in. I would
+		look out for it as carefully as I
+		attend to my automobile, so that
+		it might perform its functions
+		smoothly and with the minimum
+		of trouble.</p>
+
+		<p>To this end I would note the
+		four X&#8217;s. They are Examination,
+		Excretion, Exercise, Excess.</p>
+
+		<p><span class="subheading">Examination:</span> I would have
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page11" title="11"></a>my body thoroughly inspected by
+		intelligent scientists once a year.
+		I do not believe in thinking too
+		much about one&#8217;s health, but I
+		believe in finding out the facts,
+		and particularly the weaknesses,
+		of one&#8217;s mechanism, before one
+		proceeds to forget it.</p>
+
+		<p><span class="subheading">Excretion:</span> By far the most
+		important item to attend to in regard
+		to the body is the waste
+		pipes, including the colon, the
+		bladder, and the pores. Most diseases
+		have their origin in the colon.
+		I would see to it that it was thoroughly
+		cleaned every day. In
+		addition, I would drink plenty of
+		water, and would take some form
+		of exercise every day that would
+		induce perspiration. Most of my
+		sicknesses have come from self-poisoning,
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page12" title="12"></a>and I would make it my
+		main care to eliminate the waste.</p>
+
+		<p><span class="subheading">Exercise:</span> I would, if I were
+		twenty-one, take up some daily
+		system of exercise that would
+		bring into play all the voluntary
+		muscles of the body, and especially
+		those which from my occupation
+		tend to disuse. I would devote
+		half an hour to an hour daily to
+		this purpose.</p>
+
+		<p><span class="subheading">Excess:</span> I would take no stimulant
+		of any kind whatsoever.
+		Whatever whips the body up to
+		excess destroys the efficiency of
+		the organism. Hence I would not
+		touch alcoholic drinks in any form.
+		If one never begins with alcohol
+		he can find much more physical
+		pleasure and power without it.
+		The day of alcohol is past, with
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page13" title="13"></a>intelligent people. Science has
+		condemned it as a food. Business
+		has banned it. It remains only as
+		the folly of the weak and fatuous.</p>
+
+		<p>I would drink no tea or coffee,
+		as these are stimulants and not
+		foods. Neither would I use tobacco.
+		The healthy human body
+		will furnish more of the joy of life,
+		if it is not abused, than can be
+		given by any of the artificial
+		tonics which the ignorance and
+		weakness of men have discovered.</p>
+
+		<p>If I were twenty-one, all this!</p>
+	</div>
+	<div  id="chapter_iv">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page14" title="14"></a><span class="chapter_number">IV</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		TRAIN MY MIND</h2>
+
+
+		<p>I would realize that my eventual
+		success depends mostly upon the
+		quality and power of my brain.
+		Hence I would train it so as to
+		get the best out of it.</p>
+
+		<p>Most of the failures I have seen,
+		especially in professional life, have
+		been due to mental laziness. I was
+		a preacher for years, and found
+		out that the greatest curse of the
+		ministry is laziness. It is probably
+		the same among lawyers and
+		physicians. It certainly is so
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page15" title="15"></a>among actors and writers. Hence,
+		I would let no day pass without its
+		period of hard, keen, mental exertion
+		so that my mind would be
+		always as a steel spring, or like a
+		well-oiled engine, ready, resilient,
+		and powerful.</p>
+
+		<p>And in this connection I would
+		recognize that repetition is better
+		than effort. Mastery, perfection,
+		the doing of difficult things with
+		ease and precision, depend more
+		upon doing things over and over
+		than upon putting forth great
+		effort.</p>
+
+		<p>I would especially purge myself
+		as far as possible of intellectual
+		cowardice and intellectual dishonesty.
+		By intellectual dishonesty
+		I mean what is called expediency;
+		that is, forming, or adhering
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page16" title="16"></a>to, an opinion, not because we
+		are convinced of its truth, but
+		because of the effect it will have.
+		A mind should, at twenty-one,
+		marry Truth, and &#8220;cleave only
+		unto her, till death do them part,
+		for better, for worse.&#8221;</p>
+
+		<p>By intellectual cowardice I mean
+		all superstitions, premonitions, and
+		other forms of mental paralysis or
+		panic caused by what is vague.
+		To heed signs, omens, cryptic
+		sayings, and all talk of fate and
+		luck, is nothing but mental dirt.
+		I have seen many bright minds
+		sullied by it. It is worthy only
+		of the mind of an ignorant savage.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="chapter_v">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page17" title="17"></a><span class="chapter_number">V</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		BE HAPPY</h2>
+
+
+		<p>By this I imply that any one
+		can be happy if he will. Happiness
+		does not depend on circumstances,
+		but upon Me.</p>
+
+		<p>This is perhaps the greatest
+		truth in the world, and the one
+		most persistently disbelieved.</p>
+
+		<p>Happiness, said Carlyle, is as
+		the value of a common fraction,
+		which results from dividing the
+		numerator by the denominator.
+		The numerator, in life, is What We
+		Have. The denominator is What
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page18" title="18"></a>We Think We Ought to Have.
+		Mankind may be divided into two
+		classes: Fools and Wise. The fools
+		are eternally trying to get happiness
+		by multiplying the numerator,
+		the wise divide the denominator.
+		They both come to the
+		same&#8212;only one you can do and
+		the other is impossible.</p>
+
+		<p>If you have only one thousand
+		dollars and think you ought to
+		have two thousand dollars, the
+		answer is one thousand divided
+		by two thousand, which is one
+		half. Go and get another thousand
+		and you have two thousand
+		divided by two thousand, which
+		is one; you have doubled your
+		contentment. But the trouble is
+		that in human affairs as you multiply
+		your numerator you unconsciously
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page19" title="19"></a>multiply your denominator
+		at the same time, and you get
+		nowhere. By the time your supply
+		reaches two thousand dollars
+		your wants have risen to twenty-five
+		hundred dollars.</p>
+
+		<p>How much easier simply to reduce
+		your Notion of What You
+		Ought to Have. Get your idea
+		down to one thousand, which you
+		can easily do if you know the art
+		of self-mastery, and you have one
+		thousand divided by one thousand,
+		which is one, and a much simpler
+		and more sensible process than
+		that of trying to get another one
+		thousand dollars.</p>
+
+		<p>This is the most valuable secret
+		of life. Nothing is of more worth
+		to the youth than to awake to the
+		truth that he can change his wants.</p>
+
+		<p><a class="pagenum" id="page20" title="20"></a>Not only all happiness, but all
+		culture, all spiritual growth, all
+		real, inward success, is a process of
+		changing one&#8217;s wants.</p>
+
+		<p>So if I were twenty-one I would
+		make up my mind to be happy.
+		You get about what is coming to
+		you, in any event, in this world,
+		and happiness and misery depend
+		on how you take it; why not be
+		happy?</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="chapter_vi">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page21" title="21"></a><span class="chapter_number">VI</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		GET MARRIED</h2>
+
+		<p>I would not wait until I became
+		able to support a wife. I would
+		marry while poor, and marry a
+		poor girl. I have seen all kinds of
+		wives, and by far the greatest
+		number of successful ones were
+		those that married poor.</p>
+
+		<p>Any man of twenty-one has a
+		better chance for happiness, moral
+		stature, and earthly success, if
+		married than if unmarried.</p>
+
+		<p>I married young, and poor as
+		Job&#8217;s turkey. I have been in
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page22" title="22"></a>some hard places, seen poverty
+		and trial, and I have had more
+		than my share of success, but in
+		not one instance, either of failure
+		or triumph, would I have been
+		better off single. My partner in
+		this task of living has doubled
+		every joy and halved every defeat.</p>
+
+		<p>There&#8217;s a deal of discussion over
+		sex problems. There is but one
+		wholesome, normal, practical, and
+		God-blessed solution to the sex
+		question, and that is the loyal love
+		of one man and one woman.</p>
+
+		<p>Many young people play the
+		fool and marry the wrong person,
+		but my observation has been that
+		&#8220;there&#8217;s no fool like the old fool,&#8221;
+		that the longer marriage is postponed
+		the greater are the chances
+		of mistake, and that those couples
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page23" title="23"></a>are the most successful in matrimony
+		who begin in youth and
+		grow old together.</p>
+
+		<p>In choosing a wife I would
+		insist on three qualifications:</p>
+
+		<p>1. She should be healthy. It
+		is all well enough to admire an
+		invalid, respect and adore her,
+		but a healthy, live man needs a
+		healthy woman for his companion,
+		if he would save himself a thousand
+		ills.</p>
+
+		<p>2. She should have good common
+		sense. No matter how pretty
+		and charming a fool may be, and
+		some of them are wonderfully
+		winning, it does not pay to marry
+		her. Someone has said that pretty
+		women with no sense are like a
+		certain cheap automobile: they
+		are all right to run around with,
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page24" title="24"></a>but you don&#8217;t want to own
+		one.</p>
+
+		<p>And 3. She should be cheerful.
+		A sunny, brave, bright disposition
+		is a wife&#8217;s best dowry.</p>
+
+		<p>As to money, or station in life,
+		or cleverness, or good looks, they
+		should not enter at all into the
+		matter. If I could find a girl,
+		healthy, sensible, and cheerful, and
+		if I loved her, I&#8217;d marry her, if
+		I were twenty-one.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="chapter_vii">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page25" title="25"></a><span class="chapter_number">VII</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		SAVE MONEY</h2>
+
+		<p>Money has a deal to do with
+		contentment in this workaday
+		world, and I&#8217;d have some of my
+		own. There isn&#8217;t a human being
+		but could save a little. Every
+		man, in America at least, could live
+		on nine tenths of what he does
+		live on, and save the other tenth.
+		And the man who regularly saves
+		no money is a fool, just a plain fool,
+		whether he be an actor getting one
+		thousand dollars a week or a ditch-digger
+		getting one dollar a day.</p>
+
+		<p><a class="pagenum" id="page26" title="26"></a>And I would get my life insured.
+		Life insurance is the most practical
+		way for a young man, especially
+		if he be a professional man, or
+		any one not gifted with the knack
+		of making money, to achieve financial
+		comfort. The life insurance
+		companies are as safe as any money
+		institution can be. You are compelled
+		to save in order to pay your
+		premiums, and you probably need
+		that sort of whip. And those dependent
+		upon you are protected
+		against the financial distress that
+		would be caused by your death.
+		I believe life insurance to be the
+		best way to save money, at least
+		for one who knows little about
+		money.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="chapter_viii">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page27" title="27"></a><span class="chapter_number">VIII</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		STUDY THE ART OF PLEASING</h2>
+
+		<p>Much of the content from life
+		is due to having pleasant people
+		around you. Hence I would form
+		habits and cultivate manners that
+		would please them.</p>
+
+		<p>For instance, I would make my
+		personal appearance as attractive
+		as possible. I would look clean,
+		well-dressed, and altogether as engaging
+		as the material I had to
+		work with would allow.</p>
+
+		<p>I would be punctual. To keep
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page28" title="28"></a>people waiting is simply insolent
+		egotism.</p>
+
+		<p>I would, if my voice were unpleasant,
+		have it cultivated until
+		it became agreeable in tone. I
+		would speak low. I would not
+		mumble, but learn the art of clear,
+		distinct speech. It is very trying
+		to associate with persons who talk
+		so that it is a constant effort to
+		understand their words.</p>
+
+		<p>I would learn the art of conversation,
+		of small talk. I would
+		equip myself to be able to entertain
+		the grouchiest, most blas&eacute;
+		people. For there is hardly a
+		business in the world in which it
+		is not a great advantage to be
+		able to converse entertainingly.</p>
+
+		<p>The secret of being a good conversationalist
+		is probably a genuine,
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page29" title="29"></a>unselfish interest in others.
+		That and practice. It consists
+		more in making the other person
+		talk than in talking yourself.</p>
+
+		<p>I would learn how to write so
+		that it would not burden people
+		to read it. In this matter, one
+		hint: The English language is composed
+		of separate letters, hence,
+		when you have written one letter,
+		if you will move your pen along
+		before you write the next we shall
+		be able, probably, to discover
+		what you intend, no matter how
+		imperfectly you compose your
+		separate letters.</p>
+
+		<p>I would not argue. I never
+		knew one person in my life that
+		was convinced by argument. Discuss,
+		yes; but not argue. The
+		difference is this: in discussion you
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page30" title="30"></a>are searching for the truth, and
+		in argument you want to prove
+		that you are right. In discussion,
+		therefore, you are anxious to know
+		your neighbour&#8217;s views, and you
+		listen to him. In argument, you
+		don&#8217;t care anything about his
+		opinions, you want him to hear
+		yours; hence, while he&#8217;s talking
+		you are simply thinking over what
+		you are going to say as soon as
+		you get a chance.</p>
+
+		<p>Altogether, I would try to make
+		my personality pleasing, so that
+		people would in turn endeavour
+		to be pleasing to me.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="chapter_ix">
+		<h2 class="chapter_title"><a class="pagenum" id="page31" title="31"></a><span class="chapter_number">IX</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		DETERMINE, EVEN IF I COULD
+		NEVER BE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE
+		WORLD, THAT I WOULD BE A THOROUGHBRED</h2>
+
+
+		<p>Thoroughbred, as it is currently
+		used, is a word rather difficult to
+		define, perhaps entirely non-definable.
+		Yet we all know what it
+		means&#8212;it is like Love.</p>
+
+		<p>But it implies being several
+		things: One, being a good sport,
+		by which I mean the kind of a man
+		that does not whine when he fails,
+		but gets up smiling and tackles it
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page32" title="32"></a>again, the kind of man whose fund
+		of cheer and courage does not depend
+		upon success, but keeps brave
+		and sweet even in failure.</p>
+
+		<p>Let me quote what I have written
+		elsewhere on this point:</p>
+
+		<blockquote>
+			<p>In one of the plays of this season,
+			&#8220;The Very Minute,&#8221; one of the characters
+			says something to this effect: You
+			go on till you can go no further, you reach
+			the limit of human endurance, and then&#8212;you
+			hold on another minute, and that&#8217;s
+			the minute that counts.</p>
+
+			<p>The idea is a good one. That last
+			minute, the other side of the breaking
+			point, is worth thinking about.</p>
+
+			<p>It is that which marks the thoroughbred.</p>
+
+			<p>There is a something in the hundredth
+			man that bespeaks a finer quality. It is
+			unconquerableness, heroism, stick-to-it-iveness,
+			or whatever you have a mind
+			to call it.</p>
+
+			<p><a class="pagenum" id="page33" title="33"></a>We have a way of attributing this to
+			breeding, after the analogy of horses and
+			dogs; but while there&#8217;s something in blood
+			I doubt if it is a very trustworthy guaranty
+			of excellence. So many vigorous
+			parents have children that are morally
+			spindling, and so many surprising samples
+			of superiority come from common stock,
+			that heredity is far from dependable.</p>
+
+			<p>But the quality exists, no matter how
+			you account for it&#8212;a certain toughness of
+			moral fibre, an indestructibility of purpose.</p>
+
+			<p>Any mind is over matter, but there
+			are some wills so imperial, so dominant
+			over the body, that they keep it from collapse
+			even after its strength is spent.</p>
+
+			<p>We see it physically in the prize fighter
+			who &#8220;doesn&#8217;t know when he is beaten,&#8221;
+			in the race horse that throws an unexpected
+			dash into the last stretch even after
+			his last ounce of force is gone, in the
+			Spartan soldier who exclaimed &#8220;If I fall
+			I fight on my knees.&#8221;</p>
+
+			<p>Of all human qualities that have lit
+			up the sombreness of this tragic earth,
+			<a class="pagenum" id="page34" title="34"></a>I count this, of being a thoroughbred,
+			the happiest.</p>
+
+			<p>It has saved more souls than penance
+			and punishment, it has rescued more
+			business enterprises than shrewdness, it
+			has won more battles and more games,
+			and altogether felicitously loosed more
+			hard knots in the tangled skein of destiny
+			than any other virtue.</p>
+
+			<p>Most people are quitters. They reach
+			the limit. They are familiar with the
+			last straw.</p>
+
+			<p>But the hundredth man is a thoroughbred.
+			You cannot corner him. He will
+			not give up. He cannot find the word
+			&#8220;fail&#8221; in his lexicon. He has never
+			learned to whine.</p>
+
+			<p>What shall we do with him? There&#8217;s
+			nothing to do but to hand him success.
+			It&#8217;s just as well to deliver him the prize,
+			for he will get it eventually. There&#8217;s no
+			use trying to drown him, for he won&#8217;t sink.</p>
+
+			<p>There&#8217;s only one creature in the world
+			better than the man who is a thoroughbred.
+			It is the woman who is a thoroughbred.</p>
+		</blockquote>
+
+	</div>
+	<div id="chapter_x">
+		<h2 class="chapter"><a class="pagenum" id="page35" title="35"></a><span class="chapter_number">X</span><br />
+
+		IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD<br />
+		MAKE SOME PERMANENT, AMICABLE
+		ARRANGEMENT WITH MY CONSCIENCE</h2>
+
+		<p>God, Duty, Death, and Moral
+		Responsibility are huge facts which
+		no life can escape. They are the
+		external sphinxes by the road of
+		every man&#8217;s existence. He must
+		frame some sort of an answer to
+		them.</p>
+
+		<p>It may please the reader to
+		know how I have answered them.
+		It is very simple.</p>
+
+		<p>I am familiar, to some extent,
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page36" title="36"></a>with most of the religions, cults,
+		and creeds of mankind. There
+		are certain points common to
+		every decent religion, for in every
+		kind of church you are taught to
+		be honest, pure-minded, unselfish,
+		reverent, brave, loyal, and the
+		like.</p>
+
+		<p>These elements of religion may
+		be called the Great Common Divisor
+		of all faiths.</p>
+
+		<p>This G. C. D. is my religion.
+		It is what more than fifty years of
+		thought and experience has winnowed
+		out for me. It is my religion.
+		And I think I glimpse
+		what Emerson meant when he
+		wrote that &#8220;all good men are of
+		one religion.&#8221;</p>
+
+		<p>And the matter can be reduced
+		to yet plainer terms. There is but
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page37" title="37"></a>&#8220;one thing needful,&#8221; and there&#8217;s
+		no use being &#8220;careful and troubled
+		about many things.&#8221; That one
+		thing is to <em>do right</em>.</p>
+
+		<p>To do Right and not Wrong will
+		save any man&#8217;s soul, and if he believes
+		any doctrine that implies
+		doing wrong he is lost.</p>
+
+		<p>So, let a man of twenty-one
+		resolve, and keep his purpose,
+		that, no matter what comes, no
+		matter how mixed his theology
+		may be, no matter what may be
+		the rewards of wrong-doing, or
+		the perils and losses of right-doing,
+		he will do right; then, if there
+		is any moral law in the universe,
+		that man must sometime, somewhere,
+		arrive at his inward triumph,
+		his spiritual victory and
+		peace.</p>
+
+		<p><a class="pagenum" id="page38" title="38"></a>And the corollary of this is that
+		if I have done wrong the best and
+		only way to cure it is to quit
+		doing wrong and begin to do right.
+		If any man will stick to this, make
+		it his anchor in times of storm, his
+		pole-star in nights of uncertainty,
+		he will cast out of his life that which
+		is life&#8217;s greatest enemy&#8212;Fear. He
+		need not fear man nor woman,
+		nor governments nor mischief-makers,
+		nor the devil nor God.
+		He will be able to say with the
+		accent of sincerity that word of
+		William Ernest Henley, to me the
+		greatest spiritual declaration in
+		any language:</p>
+
+		<div class="poem">
+			<div class="stanza">
+				<p>Out of the night that covers me,</p>
+				<p class="i2">Black as the pit from Pole to Pole,</p>
+				<p>I thank whatever gods may be</p>
+				<p class="i2">For my unconquerable soul.</p>
+			</div>
+
+			<div class="stanza">
+				<p><a class="pagenum" id="page39" title="39"></a>In the fell clutch of circumstance</p>
+				<p class="i2">I have not winced nor cried aloud,</p>
+				<p>Beneath the bludgeonings of chance</p>
+				<p class="i2">My head is bloody, but unbowed.</p>
+			</div>
+
+			<div class="stanza">
+				<p>It matters not how strait the gate,</p>
+				<p class="i2">How charged with punishments the scroll,</p>
+				<p>I am the master of my fate,</p>
+				<p class="i2">I am the captain of my soul.</p>
+			</div>
+		</div>
+
+		<p>Let me repeat that I have not
+		been telling what I did with the
+		implication that the youth of
+		twenty-one would do well to follow
+		me. I did not do all these
+		things. Far from it! I wish I had.
+		I only say that if I were twenty-one,
+		as I now see life, I would
+		do as I have here suggested. But
+		perhaps I would not. I might go
+		about barking my shins and burning
+		my fingers, making idiotic
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page40" title="40"></a>experiments in the endeavour to
+		prove that I was an exception to
+		all the rules, and knew a little
+		more than all the ancients. So
+		let not the young man be discouraged
+		if he has committed follies;
+		for there seems to emerge a peculiar
+		and vivid wisdom from
+		error, from making an ass of
+		one&#8217;s self, and all that, more useful
+		to one&#8217;s own life than any wisdom
+		he can get from sages or
+		copybooks.</p>
+
+		<p>In what I have written I have
+		not tried to indicate the art of
+		&#8220;getting on,&#8221; or of acquiring riches
+		or position. These usually are what
+		is meant by success. But success
+		is of two kinds, outward and inward,
+		or apparent and real. Outward
+		success may depend somewhat
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page41" title="41"></a>upon what is in you, but it depends
+		more upon luck. It is a gambling
+		game. And it is hardly worth a
+		strong man&#8217;s while. Inward and
+		real success, on the contrary, is
+		not an affair of chance at all, but
+		is as certain as any natural law.
+		Any human being that will observe
+		the laws of life as carefully as
+		successful business men observe
+		the laws of business will come to
+		that inward poise and triumph
+		which is life&#8217;s happiest crown, as
+		certainly as the stars move in
+		their courses.</p>
+
+		<p>I would, therefore, if I were
+		twenty-one, study the art of life.
+		It is good to know arithmetic
+		and geography and bookkeeping
+		and all practical matters, but it is
+		better to know how to live, how
+		<a class="pagenum" id="page42" title="42"></a>to spend your day so that at the
+		end of it you shall be content,
+		how to spend your life so that you
+		feel it has been worth while.</p>
+	</div>
+	<div id="the_end"><p>THE END</p></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
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+Title: 21
+
+Author: Frank Crane
+
+Release Date: November 29, 2007 [EBook #23659]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 21 ***
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+Produced by Barbara and Bill Tozier.
+
+
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+
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+21
+
+
+
+[Illustration: DR. FRANK CRANE]
+
+_"We may all possess wisdom if we are willing to be persuaded that
+the experience of others is as useful as our own. Why give to old
+age alone the privilege of wisdom? What would be thought of one who
+prided himself on possessing bracelets when he had lost his two arms
+in war?"_
+
+                             --_Yoritomo, the Japanese Philosopher._
+
+
+
+
+21
+
+BY
+
+DR. FRANK CRANE
+
+Being the article "If I Were Twenty-One" which originally appeared
+in the _American Magazine_.
+
+Revised by the author
+
+
+NEW YORK
+WM. H. WISE & CO.
+1930
+
+
+
+
+_Copyright, 1918, by_
+
+WM. H. WISE & CO.
+
+_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
+languages, including the Scandinavian._
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE
+CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+CHAPTER
+
+        A Foreword
+        Prelude
+     I. If I were Twenty-One I would do the next thing
+    II. If I were Twenty-One I would adjust myself
+   III. If I were Twenty-One I would take care of my body
+    IV. If I were Twenty-One I would train my mind
+     V. If I were Twenty-One I would be happy
+    VI. If I were Twenty-One I would get married
+   VII. If I were Twenty-One I would save money
+  VIII. If I were Twenty-One I would study the art of pleasing
+    IX. If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could
+        never be anything else in the world, that I would be
+        a thoroughbred
+     X. If I were Twenty-One I would make some permanent, amicable
+        arrangement with my conscience
+
+
+
+
+A FOREWORD
+
+_The following note, by the editor of the _American Magazine_,
+appeared in conjunction with the publication of this story in that
+magazine:_
+
+
+In most of the biggest cities of the United States, from New York
+and Chicago down, you will find people who, every night of their
+lives, watch for and read in their evening paper an editorial by
+Frank Crane. These editorials are syndicated in a chain of
+thirty-eight newspapers, which reach many millions of readers. The
+grip which Crane has on these readers is tremendous. The reason is
+that the man has plenty of sensible ideas, which he presents simply
+and forcibly so that people get hold of them.
+
+In reality, Crane is a wonderful preacher. Years ago, in fact, he
+was the pastor of a great church in Chicago. But he left the pulpit
+and took up writing because he had the ability to interest millions,
+and could reach them only by means of the printing press.
+
+Doctor Crane lives in New York and does most of his work there.
+
+
+
+
+PRELUDE
+
+The voyager entering a new country will listen with attention to the
+traveller who is just returning from its exploration; and the young
+warrior buckling on his armour may be benefited by the experiences
+of the old warrior who is laying his armour off. I have climbed the
+Hill of Life, and am past the summit, _I suppose_, and perhaps it
+may help those just venturing the first incline to know what I think
+I would do if I had it to do over.
+
+I have lived an average life. I have had the same kind of follies,
+fears, and fires my twenty-one-year-old reader has. I have failed
+often and bitterly. I have loved and hated, lost and won, done some
+good deeds and many bad ones. I have had some measure of success and
+I have made about every kind of mistake there is to make. In other
+words, I have lived a full, active, human life, and have got thus
+far safely along.
+
+I am on the shady side of fifty. As people grow old they accumulate
+two kinds of spiritual supplies: one, a pile of doubts,
+questionings, and mysteries; and the other, a much smaller pile of
+positive conclusions. There is a great temptation to expatiate upon
+the former subjects, for negative and critical statements have a
+seductive appearance of depth and much more of a flavour of wisdom
+than clear and succinct declarations. But I will endeavour to resist
+this temptation, and will set down, as concisely as I can, some of
+the positive convictions I have gained.
+
+For the sake of orderly thought, I will make Ten Points. They might
+of course just as well be six points or forty, but ten seems to be
+the number most easily remembered, since we have ten fingers, first
+and "handiest" of counters.
+
+
+
+
+21
+
+
+I
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD "DO THE NEXT THING"
+
+
+The first duty of a human being in this world is to take himself off
+other people's backs. I would go to work at something for which my
+fellow men would be willing to pay. I would not wait for an Ideal
+Job. The only ideal job I ever heard of was the one some other
+fellow had.
+
+It is quite important to find the best thing to do. It is much more
+important to find something to do. If I were a young artist, I would
+paint soap advertisements, if that were all opportunity offered,
+until I got ahead enough to indulge in the painting of madonnas and
+landscapes. If I were a young musician, I would rather play in a
+street band than not at all. If I were a young writer, I would do
+hack work, if necessary, until I became able to write the Great
+American Novel.
+
+I would go to work. Nothing in all this world I have found is so
+good as work.
+
+I believe in the wage system as the best and most practical means of
+cooerdinating human effort. What spoils it is the large indigestible
+lumps of unearned money that, because of laws that originated in
+special privilege, are injected into the body politic, by
+inheritance and other legal artificialities.
+
+If I were twenty-one I would resolve to take no dollar for which I
+had not contributed something in the world's work. If a
+philanthropist gave me a million dollars I would decline it. If a
+rich father or uncle left me a fortune, I would hand it over to the
+city treasury. All great wealth units come, directly or indirectly,
+from the people and should go to them. All inheritance should be
+limited to, say, $100,000. If Government would do that there would
+be no trouble with the wage system.
+
+If I were twenty-one I would keep clean of endowed money. The
+happiest people I have known have been those whose bread and butter
+depended upon their daily exertion.
+
+
+
+
+II
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD ADJUST MYSELF
+
+
+More people I have known have suffered because they did not know how
+to adjust themselves than for any other reason. And the
+happiest-hearted people I have met have been those that have the
+knack of adapting themselves to whatever happens.
+
+I would begin with my relatives. While I might easily conceive a
+better set of uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, and so on, yet
+Destiny gave me precisely the relatives I need. I may not want them,
+but I need them. So of my friends and acquaintances and fellow
+workmen. Every man's life is a plan of God. Fate brings to me the
+very souls out of the unknown that I ought to know. If I cannot get
+along with them, be happy and appreciated, I could not get along
+with another set of my own picking. A man who is looking for ideal
+human beings to make up his circle of acquaintances would as well go
+at once and jump into the river.
+
+The God of Things as They Ought to Be is a humbug. There is but one
+God, and He is the God of Things as They Are.
+
+Half of my problem is Me; the other half is Circumstances. My task
+is to bring results out of the combination of the two.
+
+Life is not a science, to be learned; it is an art, to be practised.
+Ability comes by doing. Wisdom comes not from others; it is a
+secretion of experience.
+
+Life is not like a problem in arithmetic, to be solved by learning
+the rule; it is more like a puzzle of blocks, or wire rings--you
+just keep trying one way after another, until finally you succeed,
+maybe.
+
+I think it was Josh Billings who said that in the Game of Life, as
+in a game of cards, we have to play the cards dealt to us; and the
+good player is not the one who always wins, but the one who plays a
+poor hand well.
+
+
+
+
+III
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD TAKE CARE OF MY BODY
+
+
+The comfort and efficiency of my days depend fundamentally upon the
+condition of this physical machine I am housed in. I would look out
+for it as carefully as I attend to my automobile, so that it might
+perform its functions smoothly and with the minimum of trouble.
+
+To this end I would note the four X's. They are Examination,
+Excretion, Exercise, Excess.
+
+EXAMINATION: I would have my body thoroughly inspected by
+intelligent scientists once a year. I do not believe in thinking too
+much about one's health, but I believe in finding out the facts, and
+particularly the weaknesses, of one's mechanism, before one proceeds
+to forget it.
+
+EXCRETION: By far the most important item to attend to in regard to
+the body is the waste pipes, including the colon, the bladder, and
+the pores. Most diseases have their origin in the colon. I would see
+to it that it was thoroughly cleaned every day. In addition, I would
+drink plenty of water, and would take some form of exercise every
+day that would induce perspiration. Most of my sicknesses have come
+from self-poisoning, and I would make it my main care to eliminate
+the waste.
+
+EXERCISE: I would, if I were twenty-one, take up some daily system
+of exercise that would bring into play all the voluntary muscles of
+the body, and especially those which from my occupation tend to
+disuse. I would devote half an hour to an hour daily to this
+purpose.
+
+EXCESS: I would take no stimulant of any kind whatsoever. Whatever
+whips the body up to excess destroys the efficiency of the organism.
+Hence I would not touch alcoholic drinks in any form. If one never
+begins with alcohol he can find much more physical pleasure and
+power without it. The day of alcohol is past, with intelligent
+people. Science has condemned it as a food. Business has banned it.
+It remains only as the folly of the weak and fatuous.
+
+I would drink no tea or coffee, as these are stimulants and not
+foods. Neither would I use tobacco. The healthy human body will
+furnish more of the joy of life, if it is not abused, than can be
+given by any of the artificial tonics which the ignorance and
+weakness of men have discovered.
+
+If I were twenty-one, all this!
+
+
+
+
+IV
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD TRAIN MY MIND
+
+
+I would realize that my eventual success depends mostly upon the
+quality and power of my brain. Hence I would train it so as to get
+the best out of it.
+
+Most of the failures I have seen, especially in professional life,
+have been due to mental laziness. I was a preacher for years, and
+found out that the greatest curse of the ministry is laziness. It is
+probably the same among lawyers and physicians. It certainly is so
+among actors and writers. Hence, I would let no day pass without its
+period of hard, keen, mental exertion so that my mind would be
+always as a steel spring, or like a well-oiled engine, ready,
+resilient, and powerful.
+
+And in this connection I would recognize that repetition is better
+than effort. Mastery, perfection, the doing of difficult things with
+ease and precision, depend more upon doing things over and over than
+upon putting forth great effort.
+
+I would especially purge myself as far as possible of intellectual
+cowardice and intellectual dishonesty. By intellectual dishonesty I
+mean what is called expediency; that is, forming, or adhering to, an
+opinion, not because we are convinced of its truth, but because of
+the effect it will have. A mind should, at twenty-one, marry Truth,
+and "cleave only unto her, till death do them part, for better, for
+worse."
+
+By intellectual cowardice I mean all superstitions, premonitions,
+and other forms of mental paralysis or panic caused by what is
+vague. To heed signs, omens, cryptic sayings, and all talk of fate
+and luck, is nothing but mental dirt. I have seen many bright minds
+sullied by it. It is worthy only of the mind of an ignorant savage.
+
+
+
+
+V
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD BE HAPPY
+
+
+By this I imply that any one can be happy if he will. Happiness does
+not depend on circumstances, but upon Me.
+
+This is perhaps the greatest truth in the world, and the one most
+persistently disbelieved.
+
+Happiness, said Carlyle, is as the value of a common fraction, which
+results from dividing the numerator by the denominator. The
+numerator, in life, is What We Have. The denominator is What We
+Think We Ought to Have. Mankind may be divided into two classes:
+Fools and Wise. The fools are eternally trying to get happiness by
+multiplying the numerator, the wise divide the denominator. They
+both come to the same--only one you can do and the other is
+impossible.
+
+If you have only one thousand dollars and think you ought to have
+two thousand dollars, the answer is one thousand divided by two
+thousand, which is one half. Go and get another thousand and you
+have two thousand divided by two thousand, which is one; you have
+doubled your contentment. But the trouble is that in human affairs
+as you multiply your numerator you unconsciously multiply your
+denominator at the same time, and you get nowhere. By the time your
+supply reaches two thousand dollars your wants have risen to
+twenty-five hundred dollars.
+
+How much easier simply to reduce your Notion of What You Ought to
+Have. Get your idea down to one thousand, which you can easily do if
+you know the art of self-mastery, and you have one thousand divided
+by one thousand, which is one, and a much simpler and more sensible
+process than that of trying to get another one thousand dollars.
+
+This is the most valuable secret of life. Nothing is of more worth
+to the youth than to awake to the truth that he can change his
+wants.
+
+Not only all happiness, but all culture, all spiritual growth, all
+real, inward success, is a process of changing one's wants.
+
+So if I were twenty-one I would make up my mind to be happy. You get
+about what is coming to you, in any event, in this world, and
+happiness and misery depend on how you take it; why not be happy?
+
+
+
+
+VI
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD GET MARRIED
+
+
+I would not wait until I became able to support a wife. I would
+marry while poor, and marry a poor girl. I have seen all kinds of
+wives, and by far the greatest number of successful ones were those
+that married poor.
+
+Any man of twenty-one has a better chance for happiness, moral
+stature, and earthly success, if married than if unmarried.
+
+I married young, and poor as Job's turkey. I have been in some hard
+places, seen poverty and trial, and I have had more than my share of
+success, but in not one instance, either of failure or triumph,
+would I have been better off single. My partner in this task of
+living has doubled every joy and halved every defeat.
+
+There's a deal of discussion over sex problems. There is but one
+wholesome, normal, practical, and God-blessed solution to the sex
+question, and that is the loyal love of one man and one woman.
+
+Many young people play the fool and marry the wrong person, but my
+observation has been that "there's no fool like the old fool," that
+the longer marriage is postponed the greater are the chances of
+mistake, and that those couples are the most successful in matrimony
+who begin in youth and grow old together.
+
+In choosing a wife I would insist on three qualifications:
+
+1. She should be healthy. It is all well enough to admire an
+invalid, respect and adore her, but a healthy, live man needs a
+healthy woman for his companion, if he would save himself a thousand
+ills.
+
+2. She should have good common sense. No matter how pretty and
+charming a fool may be, and some of them are wonderfully winning, it
+does not pay to marry her. Someone has said that pretty women with
+no sense are like a certain cheap automobile: they are all right to
+run around with, but you don't want to own one.
+
+And 3. She should be cheerful. A sunny, brave, bright disposition is
+a wife's best dowry.
+
+As to money, or station in life, or cleverness, or good looks, they
+should not enter at all into the matter. If I could find a girl,
+healthy, sensible, and cheerful, and if I loved her, I'd marry her,
+if I were twenty-one.
+
+
+
+
+VII
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD SAVE MONEY
+
+
+Money has a deal to do with contentment in this workaday world, and
+I'd have some of my own. There isn't a human being but could save a
+little. Every man, in America at least, could live on nine tenths of
+what he does live on, and save the other tenth. And the man who
+regularly saves no money is a fool, just a plain fool, whether he be
+an actor getting one thousand dollars a week or a ditch-digger
+getting one dollar a day.
+
+And I would get my life insured. Life insurance is the most
+practical way for a young man, especially if he be a professional
+man, or any one not gifted with the knack of making money, to
+achieve financial comfort. The life insurance companies are as safe
+as any money institution can be. You are compelled to save in order
+to pay your premiums, and you probably need that sort of whip. And
+those dependent upon you are protected against the financial
+distress that would be caused by your death. I believe life
+insurance to be the best way to save money, at least for one who
+knows little about money.
+
+
+
+
+VIII
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD STUDY THE ART OF PLEASING
+
+
+Much of the content from life is due to having pleasant people
+around you. Hence I would form habits and cultivate manners that
+would please them.
+
+For instance, I would make my personal appearance as attractive as
+possible. I would look clean, well-dressed, and altogether as
+engaging as the material I had to work with would allow.
+
+I would be punctual. To keep people waiting is simply insolent
+egotism.
+
+I would, if my voice were unpleasant, have it cultivated until it
+became agreeable in tone. I would speak low. I would not mumble, but
+learn the art of clear, distinct speech. It is very trying to
+associate with persons who talk so that it is a constant effort to
+understand their words.
+
+I would learn the art of conversation, of small talk. I would equip
+myself to be able to entertain the grouchiest, most blase people.
+For there is hardly a business in the world in which it is not a
+great advantage to be able to converse entertainingly.
+
+The secret of being a good conversationalist is probably a genuine,
+unselfish interest in others. That and practice. It consists more in
+making the other person talk than in talking yourself.
+
+I would learn how to write so that it would not burden people to
+read it. In this matter, one hint: The English language is composed
+of separate letters, hence, when you have written one letter, if you
+will move your pen along before you write the next we shall be able,
+probably, to discover what you intend, no matter how imperfectly you
+compose your separate letters.
+
+I would not argue. I never knew one person in my life that was
+convinced by argument. Discuss, yes; but not argue. The difference
+is this: in discussion you are searching for the truth, and in
+argument you want to prove that you are right. In discussion,
+therefore, you are anxious to know your neighbour's views, and you
+listen to him. In argument, you don't care anything about his
+opinions, you want him to hear yours; hence, while he's talking you
+are simply thinking over what you are going to say as soon as you
+get a chance.
+
+Altogether, I would try to make my personality pleasing, so that
+people would in turn endeavour to be pleasing to me.
+
+
+
+
+IX
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD DETERMINE, EVEN IF I COULD NEVER BE
+ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, THAT I WOULD BE A THOROUGHBRED
+
+
+Thoroughbred, as it is currently used, is a word rather difficult to
+define, perhaps entirely non-definable. Yet we all know what it
+means--it is like Love.
+
+But it implies being several things: One, being a good sport, by
+which I mean the kind of a man that does not whine when he fails,
+but gets up smiling and tackles it again, the kind of man whose fund
+of cheer and courage does not depend upon success, but keeps brave
+and sweet even in failure.
+
+Let me quote what I have written elsewhere on this point:
+
+    In one of the plays of this season, "The Very Minute," one
+    of the characters says something to this effect: You go on
+    till you can go no further, you reach the limit of human
+    endurance, and then--you hold on another minute, and that's
+    the minute that counts.
+
+    The idea is a good one. That last minute, the other side of
+    the breaking point, is worth thinking about.
+
+    It is that which marks the thoroughbred.
+
+    There is a something in the hundredth man that bespeaks a
+    finer quality. It is unconquerableness, heroism,
+    stick-to-it-iveness, or whatever you have a mind to call it.
+
+    We have a way of attributing this to breeding, after the
+    analogy of horses and dogs; but while there's something in
+    blood I doubt if it is a very trustworthy guaranty of
+    excellence. So many vigorous parents have children that are
+    morally spindling, and so many surprising samples of
+    superiority come from common stock, that heredity is far
+    from dependable.
+
+    But the quality exists, no matter how you account for it--a
+    certain toughness of moral fibre, an indestructibility of
+    purpose.
+
+    Any mind is over matter, but there are some wills so
+    imperial, so dominant over the body, that they keep it from
+    collapse even after its strength is spent.
+
+    We see it physically in the prize fighter who "doesn't know
+    when he is beaten," in the race horse that throws an
+    unexpected dash into the last stretch even after his last
+    ounce of force is gone, in the Spartan soldier who exclaimed
+    "If I fall I fight on my knees."
+
+    Of all human qualities that have lit up the sombreness of
+    this tragic earth, I count this, of being a thoroughbred,
+    the happiest.
+
+    It has saved more souls than penance and punishment, it has
+    rescued more business enterprises than shrewdness, it has
+    won more battles and more games, and altogether felicitously
+    loosed more hard knots in the tangled skein of destiny than
+    any other virtue.
+
+    Most people are quitters. They reach the limit. They are
+    familiar with the last straw.
+
+    But the hundredth man is a thoroughbred. You cannot corner
+    him. He will not give up. He cannot find the word "fail" in
+    his lexicon. He has never learned to whine.
+
+    What shall we do with him? There's nothing to do but to hand
+    him success. It's just as well to deliver him the prize, for
+    he will get it eventually. There's no use trying to drown
+    him, for he won't sink.
+
+    There's only one creature in the world better than the man
+    who is a thoroughbred. It is the woman who is a
+    thoroughbred.
+
+
+
+
+X
+
+IF I WERE TWENTY-ONE I WOULD MAKE SOME PERMANENT, AMICABLE
+ARRANGEMENT WITH MY CONSCIENCE
+
+
+God, Duty, Death, and Moral Responsibility are huge facts which no
+life can escape. They are the external sphinxes by the road of every
+man's existence. He must frame some sort of an answer to them.
+
+It may please the reader to know how I have answered them. It is
+very simple.
+
+I am familiar, to some extent, with most of the religions, cults,
+and creeds of mankind. There are certain points common to every
+decent religion, for in every kind of church you are taught to be
+honest, pure-minded, unselfish, reverent, brave, loyal, and the
+like.
+
+These elements of religion may be called the Great Common Divisor of
+all faiths.
+
+This G. C. D. is my religion. It is what more than fifty years of
+thought and experience has winnowed out for me. It is my religion.
+And I think I glimpse what Emerson meant when he wrote that "all
+good men are of one religion."
+
+And the matter can be reduced to yet plainer terms. There is but
+"one thing needful," and there's no use being "careful and troubled
+about many things." That one thing is to _do right_.
+
+To do Right and not Wrong will save any man's soul, and if he
+believes any doctrine that implies doing wrong he is lost.
+
+So, let a man of twenty-one resolve, and keep his purpose, that, no
+matter what comes, no matter how mixed his theology may be, no
+matter what may be the rewards of wrong-doing, or the perils and
+losses of right-doing, he will do right; then, if there is any moral
+law in the universe, that man must sometime, somewhere, arrive at
+his inward triumph, his spiritual victory and peace.
+
+And the corollary of this is that if I have done wrong the best and
+only way to cure it is to quit doing wrong and begin to do right. If
+any man will stick to this, make it his anchor in times of storm,
+his pole-star in nights of uncertainty, he will cast out of his life
+that which is life's greatest enemy--Fear. He need not fear man nor
+woman, nor governments nor mischief-makers, nor the devil nor God.
+He will be able to say with the accent of sincerity that word of
+William Ernest Henley, to me the greatest spiritual declaration in
+any language:
+
+  Out of the night that covers me,
+    Black as the pit from Pole to Pole,
+  I thank whatever gods may be
+    For my unconquerable soul.
+
+  In the fell clutch of circumstance
+    I have not winced nor cried aloud,
+  Beneath the bludgeonings of chance
+    My head is bloody, but unbowed.
+
+  It matters not how strait the gate,
+    How charged with punishments the scroll,
+  I am the master of my fate,
+    I am the captain of my soul.
+
+Let me repeat that I have not been telling what I did with the
+implication that the youth of twenty-one would do well to follow me.
+I did not do all these things. Far from it! I wish I had. I only say
+that if I were twenty-one, as I now see life, I would do as I have
+here suggested. But perhaps I would not. I might go about barking my
+shins and burning my fingers, making idiotic experiments in the
+endeavour to prove that I was an exception to all the rules, and
+knew a little more than all the ancients. So let not the young man
+be discouraged if he has committed follies; for there seems to
+emerge a peculiar and vivid wisdom from error, from making an ass of
+one's self, and all that, more useful to one's own life than any
+wisdom he can get from sages or copybooks.
+
+In what I have written I have not tried to indicate the art of
+"getting on," or of acquiring riches or position. These usually are
+what is meant by success. But success is of two kinds, outward and
+inward, or apparent and real. Outward success may depend somewhat
+upon what is in you, but it depends more upon luck. It is a gambling
+game. And it is hardly worth a strong man's while. Inward and real
+success, on the contrary, is not an affair of chance at all, but is
+as certain as any natural law. Any human being that will observe the
+laws of life as carefully as successful business men observe the
+laws of business will come to that inward poise and triumph which is
+life's happiest crown, as certainly as the stars move in their
+courses.
+
+I would, therefore, if I were twenty-one, study the art of life. It
+is good to know arithmetic and geography and bookkeeping and all
+practical matters, but it is better to know how to live, how to
+spend your day so that at the end of it you shall be content, how to
+spend your life so that you feel it has been worth while.
+
+
+
+
+THE END
+
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