[44] The great war in which we have become involved since this book was written has furnished brilliant examples of these finer qualities.
[45] It is curious to find that the story of “Puss-in-Boots” in its variants is sometimes presented with a moral, sometimes without. In the valley of the Ganges it has none. In Cashmere it has one moral, in Zanzibar another.
[46] From “Childhood in Literature and Art.” Study of Hans C. Andersen, page 201.
[47] “Sartor Resartus,” Book III, page 218.
CHAPTER VII.
On Questions Asked by Teachers.
The following questions have been put to me so often by teachers, in my own country and the States, that I have thought it might be useful to give in my book some of the attempts I have made to answer them; and I wish to record here an expression of gratitude to the teachers who have asked these questions at the close of my lectures. It has enabled me to formulate my views on the subject and to clear up, by means of research and thought, the reason for certain things which I had more or less taken for granted. It has also constantly modified my own point of view, and has prevented me from becoming too dogmatic in dealing with other people's methods.
Question I. Why do I consider it necessary to spend so many years on the Art of Story-Telling, which takes in, after all, such a restricted portion of literature?