Stories to Tell Children by Sara Cone Bryant (good beach reads .TXT) 📕

e race has, in general, attainedthrough centuries of experience and moralising. The story becomes aninescapable part of the outfit of received ideas on manners and moralswhich is a necessary possession of the heir of civilisation.

Children do not object to these stories in the least, if the stories aregood ones. They accept them with the relish which nature seems ever tohave for all truly nourishing material. And the little tales are one ofthe media through which we elders may transmit some very slight share ofthe benefit received by us, in turn, from actual or transmittedexperience.

The second kind has no preconceived moral to offer, makes no attempt toaffect judgment or to pass on a standard. It simply presents a pictureof life, usually in fable or poetic image, and says to the hearer,"These things are." The hearer, then, consciously or otherwise, passesjudgment on the facts. His mind says, "These things are good"; or, "Thiswas good, and that, bad"; or, "This thing is desirable," or thec