fable-time

Updated: May 19, 2025

There was no goodness in his religion, and we can tolerate it only as it is developed in the Homeric rhapsodies, in the far-off fable-time of the old world, and amongst men who were but partially self-conscious. In that remote Homeric epoch it is tolerable, when cattle-stealing and war were the chief employments of the ruling caste, and we may add, woman-stealing, into the bargain.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859