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Title: Is there a Santa Claus?
Source: New York Sun
URL Source: http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/
Published: Sep 21, 1897
Author: Francis Pharcellus Church
Post Date: 2007-12-22 19:52:42 by scrapper2
Keywords: Christmas classic, Yes, Virginia, Believe!
Views: 241
Comments: 22

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."

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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#1. To: scrapper2 (#0)

Is there a Santa Claus?

Of course there is. Just saw him at the mall. He smelled like cheap scotch.

orangedog  posted on  2007-12-22   19:57:05 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: orangedog, who knows what evil, Esso (#1)

I had to break out the ether this morning, but even then the snow-thrower wouldn't start. I took off the carb cover to see if anything was amiss, and in my own interpretation of the hail mary play gave the start rope a tug and it fired right up. It was something electrical, but it's fixed now.

Dakmar  posted on  2007-12-22   20:03:27 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Dakmar (#2)

I had to break out the ether this morning, but even then the snow-thrower wouldn't start.

I find yelling at and making fun of two stroke engines helps motivate them.

orangedog  posted on  2007-12-22   20:16:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: orangedog (#5) (Edited)

I find yelling at and making fun of two stroke engines helps motivate them.

I went and got a three-pronged power cord to plug up to 'LetroStart, even that couldn't achieve any part of the four cycle process. I put carb cover back on so it's not mashing against choke, throttle, and kill switch tight as it was.

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#12. To: Dakmar (#8)

I went and got a three-pronged power cord to plug up to 'LetroStart

Real men use ungrounded outlets.

orangedog  posted on  2007-12-22 20:28:34 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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