Capitolo 2
Croesus which the history we love and we suspect as everything in
Herodotus. I am also there histories of the deformity of characteristic and a hello
the licentiousness of language: histories that (as the famous said Cardinal)
you explain, although they doesn't excuse, his/her state is launched on a tall
precipice to Delphi. It is for those that you/they read the Fables to judge
if he on the cliff was really thrown for being ugly and
offensive, or rather to be extremely moral and correct. But there is
some kind of it doubts that his general legend can justly classify him/it
with a run too easily forgotten in our modern comparisons: the run
of the great slaves of philosophic. AEsop is been able to be a fiction as
Uncle Remus: he was also, as Uncle Remus, a fact. It is a fact that
enslaved in the old world you/they could be beloved as AEsop, or it loved likes
Uncle Remus. It is odd to note that both the great slaves you/they have told them
best histories on beasts and birds.
But anything is fairly because of AEsop, the tradition human call Fables
it is not because of him. This had followed you crave first some freedmen sarcastic
from Phrygia it had or you/he/she had not been flung out of a precipice; this has
remained by a lot of after. It is to our advantage, indeed to understand the
distinction; because it makes more evidently real AEsop that some
other fabulist. The Histories of Grimm, glorious as them I am, it was picked from
two German students. And if we find him/it to us hard to be sure of a German
student, at least us we know more him that We know a Phrygian
enslaved. Truth is, clearly, the Fables of that AEsops are not AEsop
fables, some more than the Delicate Histories of Grimm were never the fairy of Grimm
histories. But the fable and the delicate history are suddenly things distinguished.
There are many elements of the difference; but the is more clearly simple
enough. There can be no good fable with human beings him. There
delicate history is not good without them.
AEsop or Babrius (or whatever its name was), it understood that, for