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We take pleasure in answering at onee and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that ; jtafuthftil author is numbered amongthe friends ofUrn Smu Dear Editor;
I am 8 yean old.
Some of my little friends •ay there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says “If you see it in Tht Sun it’s so.”
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O’Hanlon
115 West 95th Street
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a Skeptical age. They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which 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 of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there Wero ho Santa Claus! It would -be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable
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