Fifty-One Original Fables

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Excerpt from Fifty-One Original Fables: With Morals and Ethical Index Fable was invented at a very early stage of the world, and was adopted as a safe and instructive medium through which superior knowledge and truths could be so adroitly conveyed to nations and individuals as not to savour of reprimand or dictation. It was chosen by wise men, as the form of reproof to kings which might least risk their displeasure - of advice and remonstrance to rebellious people, which should not wound their pride, or rouse their vengeance - of wisdom and morals to youth which assumed not the sternness of coercion - and to children a knowledge of right from wrong in so fascinating a way as to be rather a means of amusement than a scholastic lecture: for these reasons the Philosophers of old so highly approved of fables that they recommended them as the best mode of inculcating moral philosophy in the schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.