It was about this time that a clear separation between ?stories? and ?facts? emerged.
In the era when Voltaire and Rousseau were loudly proclaiming the supremacy of Reason and their theories regarding the absolute importance of being able to prove something for it to be real, the Grimm brothers and Hans Christian Anderson were quietly spinning their ?Fairy Tales?, which were often so fantastic that they stretched the bounds of believability.
Nevertheless, what child has not heard the story of the Frog Prince, Beauty and the Beast, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, the Lion and the Mouse, or the tale of Snow White? What adult would not prefer to listen to a fairy tale or a fable over a list of bare facts teaching the same message.
Essentially, what we often associate as ?history? is merely the moral of the story.
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