this matter and where there is no means for the child to use ingenuity
or imagination in making out the meaning for himself.

Henry Morley has condemned the use of this method as applied to fairy
stories. He says: "Moralizing in a fairy story is like the snoring
of _Bottom_ in _Titania's_ lap."

But I think this applies to all stories, and most especially to those
by which we do wish to teach something.

John Burroughs says in his article, "Thou Shalt Not Preach":[19]

"Didactic fiction can never rank high. Thou shalt not preach or
teach; thou shalt portray and create, and have ends as universal
as nature. . . . What Art demands is that the artist's personal
convictions and notions, his likes and dislikes, do not obtrude
themselves at all; that good and evil stand judged in his work by the
logic of events, as they do in nature, and not by any special pleading
on his part. He does non hold a brief for either side; he exemplifies
the working of the creative energy. . . . The great artist works in and
_through_ and _from_ moral ideas; his works are indirectly a criticism
of life. He is moral without having a moral. The moment a moral
obtrudes itself, that moment he begins to fall from grace as an
artist. . . . The great distinction of Art is that it aims to see life
steadily and to see it whole. . . . It affords the one point of view
whence the world appears harmonious and complete."

It would seem, then, from this passage, that it is of _moral_
importance to put things dramatically.