● [ニッキ] Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

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Newseum - Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/

> Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New
> York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial
> Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church
> has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing
> in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other
> editorials, and on posters and stamps.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> "DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 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.
> "115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."
>
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>
> 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 were no 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 this existence. We should have no
> enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which
> childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
>
> Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
> You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on
> Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa
> Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but
> that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in
> the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever
> see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that
> they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there
> are unseen and unseeable in the world.
>
> You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside,
> but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest
> man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever
> lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can
> push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and
> glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is
> nothing else real and abiding.
>
> No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand
> years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he
> will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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