[Juenger-list] DIE SCHERE #62: Note 2

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[2] I find this difficult to swallow. The quaint teachings of fables should be 
the best models for our actions and behaviour? Granted, the speaking animals of 
Aesop or La Fontaine have some quite reasonable ideas to tell us. But isn't it 
the author-the human who drives home his truth in the moral at the end-who uses 
the animals as his puppets and pulls the strings and makes them speak his 
enlightened ideas? Or does EJ mean that fables express best whatever can be 
learnt from Nature? I myself prefer the conclusions to be drawn from the findings 
of the natural sciences. An example in note 1.