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Yes, Virginia

To the Editor:

I am eight years old.

Some of my little friends 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 O'HANLON

New York

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

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