The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. ... But this story has enteredand the primary world; ... It has pre-eminently the "inner consistency of ." There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For theof it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. ...this story is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified.is the Lord, of , and of men — and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused.

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