Iron County Record | 1927-04-15 | Page 6 | History's Pages Full of Errors of Record

H History's Pages Page Full Fall of 01 Errors Error of 01 Record d Aesop's fables are really not Aesop's at all all but bat fables tables A Italian named wrote and compiled compiled com com- complied piled plied them several centuries after the Phrygian fabulists fabulist's death the date of which Is Ii given as rot Some chroniclers chron chron- Ide Iders la say Aesop never DeTer lived at all The fables tables he Is II said laid to have baTe composed composed com com- posed are lost Socrates and later writers made versions of the Babrian Inventions to which they gave ue Aesop's Aesop name thus bestowing Immortality upon upon up up- on one sage lar and robbing another of hIs bis laurels laurel A mistake In fn computation by bT a Sixth Sinh century chro- chro Is reS responsible for tor the common rommon common com rom mon and nd erroneous understanding that birth was In the year 1 Christ was not born In the first year Tear of the Christian era en but about four tour years before the beginning of that pe peo dal Cinderella's IlIp slipper r was made not of glass alus bat l of ot sable lable Noting tb these and similar errors Josh Billings once wrote The trouble with most folks foils Isn't so 10 o much moth their ther Ignorance as knowin so many things that aInt so Men SOo Men Mentor tor Magazine