Mother’s Nursery Tales
Author: first_name: Katharine
last_name: Pyle
Language: English
Year: 1918

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like the things you see around you or learn from history books. Facts and truths are as different as the body and the spirit. Facts are like the body that we can see and touch and measure; we cannot see or measure the Spirit, but it is there. <br /><br />
No one knows who first told them, nor where nor when. Perhaps none of them was told by any one particular pe