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Soul Murder in the Schools 221
without daring to hold that nature is so simple,
that need and inclination can be so nearly re-
lated. Naturally, it cannot be maintained that
what is most attractive for children’s stories
should constitute their whole training, as phy-
siology maintains that what tastes most agree-
able to the child, for example sugar, should
form his sole nourishment.
What every story-teller finds as specially
attractive to children, is the epic smoothness,
the clear comprehensiveness of the tale, its con-
sistent objectivity. Every narrative which
will win the attention of the child, whether
it be from Scandinavian, classical, or bibli-
cal history, must have these characteristics
of the tale. There are hardly any story-tell-
ers who so completely absorb children as old
nurses. They never forget any picturesque
trait in the tale, they always give the same
broad, full narrative. They tell their stories
without explanations and without applica-
tions, with the real direct feeling of the child
for grasping the subject. Everything which
disturbs the smooth flow of the narrative, above
all, when the narrator puts himself outside of
it by indulging in a joke, strikes the child as a
profound incongruity. Children are always
more or less artistic in their nature, in the sense
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