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diff --git a/23659.txt b/23659.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bbc9587 --- /dev/null +++ b/23659.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1084 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of 21, by Frank Crane + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: 21 + +Author: Frank Crane + +Release Date: November 29, 2007 [EBook #23659] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 21 *** + + + + +Produced by Barbara and Bill Tozier. + + + + + +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 + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of 21, by Frank Crane + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 21 *** + +***** This file should be named 23659.txt or 23659.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/3/6/5/23659/ + +Produced by Barbara and Bill Tozier. + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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