The Selfish Giant and Other Tales Bouyer The Fire of Francis Xavier

The Fire of Francis Xavier (1952)

and began singing unto them a certain song

(The Gospel of Matthew)

(2) The bitter struggle for sovereignty between “sword and spirit” in the Napoleonic era

The Selfish Giant and Other Tales Bouyer The Fire of Francis XavierBy Oscar Wilde The task of the fairy tale, in the words of Chesterton, is not to make children afraid, nor is it to introduce to them the notion of the evil, the ugly, or the falsethose ideas are already in the them, for they are already in the world. Instead, the task of the fairy tale is to show that the final word belongs not to evil, ugliness, or falsehood, but to goodness, truth, and beauty, and that justice and mercy alike repay princes and