…the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

  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 St.

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 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 of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge
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