It appears to be a gross anachronism to deal with shepherds and sheep in the last decade of the twentieth century. Our age is one of science, technology, cities, and industry. We deal with machines and robots, not with animals and their caretakers. It is an age when a person is known by a number rather than by a name. Instead of walking like a shepherd, we speed in autos, sail through the air in jet planes, and visit the moon. In the midst of all this, we have plaintive parables about shepherds, sheep, and sheepfolds! They seem to come from another world.
