xxii ^ESOP'S FABLES 



allegory gives us a pleasing and not too strenuous stimulation 

 of the intellectual powers ; the lesson is not too complicated 

 for childlike minds. Indeed, in their grotesque grace, in 

 their quaint humour, in their trust in the simpler virtues, in 

 their insight into the cruder vices, in their innocence of the 

 fact of sex, ./Esop's Fables are as little children. They are 

 as little children, and for that reason they will for ever find 

 a home in the heaven of little children's souls. 



