By E. J. BICKNELL All over the world there emerges a philosophy of life that expresses itself in proverbs and riddles and fables. These embody popular reflection upon the meaning and problems of the world. They are devices for handing on the accumulated experience of the past in a form that can be easily remembered and understood. A proverb has been defined as ‘the wisdom of many and the wit of one.’ The definition includes the two necessary conditions. There