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■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesf other literanire lovers made possible by the public domain.This particular ebook is based on a transcription produced for Project Gutenberg and on digital scans available at the Internet \ I chive.The writing and artwork within are believed to be in the U.S. public domain, and Standaid Ebooks rele aesop fables v s vernon jonesases this ebook edition under the terms in the cco 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. For full license information, see the I Incopyright ar theaesop fables v s vernon jones
end of this ebookStandard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces ebook editions of public domain literatiue using modem typography. techno■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesandaictebooks.oigIntroductionAesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history: his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity. In the ear aesop fables v s vernon jonesliest human history whatever is authentic is universal: and whatever is universal is anonymous. In such cases there is always some central man who hadaesop fables v s vernon jones
first the trouble of collecting them, and afterwards the fame of creating them. He had the fame; and. on the whole, he earned the fame. There must ha■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jones the future. The story of Arthur may have been really connected with the most fighting Christianity of falling Rome or with the most heathen traditions hidden in the hills of Wales. But the word “Mappe” or “Malory” will always mean King Arthur; even though we find older and better origins than the M aesop fables v s vernon jonesabinogian: or write later and worse versions than the Idylls of the King. The nursery fairy tales may have come out of Asia with the Indo-European racaesop fables v s vernon jones
e, now fortunately extinct; they may have been invented by some fine French lady or gentleman like Perrault: they may possibly even be what they profe■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesso far as he was historical, would seem to have been a Phrygian slave, or at least one not to be specially and symbolically adorned with the Phrygian cap of liberty. He lived, if he did live, about the sixth century before Christ, in the time of that Croesus whose story we love and suspect like ever aesop fables v s vernon jonesything else in Herodotus. There are also stories of deformity of feature and a ready ribaldry of tongue: stories which (as the celebrated Cardinal saiaesop fables v s vernon jones
d) explain, though they do not excuse, his having been hurled over a high precipice at Delphi. It is for those who read theFables to judge whether he ■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesneral legend of him may justly rank him with a race too easily forgotten in our modem comparisons: the race of the great philosophic slaves. Aesop may have been a fiction like Uncle Remus: he was also, like Uncle Remus, a fact. It is a fact that slaves in the old world could be worshipped like Aesop aesop fables v s vernon jones, or loved like Uncle Remus. It is odd to note that both the great slaves told their best stories about beasts and birds.But whatever be fairly due toaesop fables v s vernon jones
Aesop, the human tradition called Fables is not due to him. This had gone on long before any sarcastic freedman from Phrygia had or had not been flun■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesective than any other fabulist. Grimm s Tales, glorious as they are, were collected by two German students. And if we find it hard to be certain of a German student, at least we know more about him than We know about a Phrygian slave. The truth is, of course, that Aesop's Fables are not Aesop's fabl aesop fables v s vernon joneses, any more than Grimm s Fairy Tales were ever Grimm's fairy tales. But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct. There are many elemaesop fables v s vernon jones
ents of difference: but the plainest is plain enough. There can be no good fable with human beings in it. There can be no good fairy tale without them■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesebra, or like pieces in chess. The lion must always be stronger than the wolf, just as four is always double of two. The fox in a fable must move crooked, as the knight in chess must move crooked. The sheep in a fable must march on, as the pawn in chess must march on. The fable must not allow for th aesop fables v s vernon jonese crooked captures of the pawn; it must not allow for what Balzac called “the revolt of a sheep.” The fairy tale, on the other hand, absolutely revolvaesop fables v s vernon jones
es on the pivot of human personality. If no hero were there to fight the dragons, we should not even know that they were dragons. If no adventurer wer■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon joness stand white and frozen—why. then, they will remain white and frozen and enchanted. If there is no personal prince to find the Sleeping Beauty she will simply sleep. Fables repose upon quite the opposite idea; that eventhing is itself, and will in any case speak for itself.The wolf will be always w aesop fables v s vernon jonesolfish; the fox will be always foxy. Something of the same sort may have been meant by the animal worship, in which Egyptian and Indian and many otheraesop fables v s vernon jones
great peoples have combined. Men do not. I think, love beetles or cats or crocodiles with a wholly personal love; they salute them as expressions of ■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesesop’s all the animal forces drive like inanimate forces, like great rivers or growing trees. It is the limit and the loss of all such things that they cannot be anything but themselves: it is their tragedy that they could not lose their souls.This is the immortal justification of the Fable: that we aesop fables v s vernon jones could not teach the plainest truths so simply without turning men into chessmen. We cannot talk of such simple things without using animals that do naesop fables v s vernon jones
ot talk at all. Suppose, for a moment, that you turn the wolf into a wolfish baron, or the fox into a foxy diplomatist. You will at once remember that■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon joneshould go with the brutality of any brutal man: for that allowance for all delicate things, including virtue, that should exist in any good diplomatist. Once put a thing on two legs instead of four and pluck it of feathers and you cannot help asking for a human being, either heroic, as in the fairy t aesop fables v s vernon jonesales, or un-heroic, as in the modern novels.But by using animals in this austere and arbitrary style as they are used on the shields of heraldry or thaesop fables v s vernon jones
e hieroglyphics of the ancients, men have really succeeded in handing down those tremendous truths that are called truisms. If the chivalric lion be r■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work of aesop fables v s vernon jonesarge animal alphabet, are written some of the first philosophic certainties of men. As the child learns A for Ass or B for Bull or c for Cow, so man has learnt here to connect the simpler and stronger creatures with the simpler and stronger truths. That a flowing stream cannot befoul its own fountai aesop fables v s vernon jonesn, and that anyone who says it does is a tyrant and a liar; that a mouse is too weak to fight a lion, but too strong for the cords that can hold a lioaesop fables v s vernon jones
n; that a fox who gets most out of a flat dish may easily get least out of a deep dish; that the crow whom the gods forbid to sing, the gods neverthel■ FABLESAESOPV. s. VERNON JONESThis ebook is The product of many hours of hard work by volunteers for Standard I books, and builds on The hard work ofGọi ngay
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