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fication that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear Editor:
1 am 8 years old. Some of my
little fr.iends say there is no
Santa Claus. Papa says “If you
see it in The Sun It’s so.’’ Please
tell me the truth; is there a
Santa Claus?
VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be that is not comprehensible by their little minds.
All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion
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