Children and the Lex Talionis

From the Academy

Ought we to bowdlerize children’s folk tales, so as to present the young with a world of gentleness and peace? Ought we to take the grim out of Grimm? That question arose recently at the 1974 meeting of the advisory board of the Open Court Publishing Company.

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Russell Kirk

From the Academy

Ought we to bowdlerize children’s folk tales, so as to present the young with a world of gentleness and peace? Ought we to take the grim out of Grimm? That question arose recently at the 1974 meeting of the advisory board of the Open Court Publishing Company.