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In December 1897, eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, posing the all-important question of her age – “Is there a Santa Claus?” – since some of her friends had been telling her that there was no such a thing. Francis P. Church, the editor, answered in what became one of the most famous editorials ever pub- lished in an American newspaper: Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepti- cism 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 uni- verse 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.
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