![]() ![]() 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. There must have been something great and human, something of the human future and the human past, in such a man: even if he only used it to rob the past or deceive the future. He had the fame and, on the whole, he earned the fame. In such cases there is always some central man who had first the trouble of collecting them, and afterwards the fame of creating them. In the earliest human history whatever is authentic is universal: and whatever is universal is anonymous. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not him but to humanity. _AEsop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. ![]() ![]() Produced by Suzanne Shell, Greg Chapman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. ![]()
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