"The Role of the Moral in "La Vida del Ysopet con sus Fabulas Historiadas

truth that persistent dedication to a cause can overcome the effects of unequal distribution of talent. The abstract truth must exist prior to the illustrative story, because the story is of interest only in that it illustrates the truth of the abstraction. On the other hand, the expression of the abstraction has no literary interest apart from its dramatic illustration by the facts of the story; the two are truly inseparable. Most of the interesting traits and habits of the animal world had already been utilized in the most ancient of the Aesopic fables, composed by very astute observers of animal nature. Persistent efforts to invent different animal stories were made by the various composers of the 163 stories in the Ysopet, with the result that many of their fables were dull in subject matter

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