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00:00 Christmas is Christmas. You can't ask for better than that, can you?
00:03 We are fortunate, James.
00:05 What's this?
00:09 It's for you, Papa. You can't wait till tomorrow. It'll be too late.
00:13 Is it something you made?
00:15 No. I found a penny.
00:18 I wish I had something for everybody.
00:26 Being my daughter is gift enough.
00:29 Go on, Papa. Open your present.
00:31 Well, all right. We'll make an exception this time since tomorrow will be too late.
00:36 It's today's paper, son. Today's.
00:42 Not a soggy, smelly one from yesterday.
00:46 But how did you manage to...
00:48 The newsboy let me buy it for a penny. It was his last paper.
00:53 Thank you, Virginia. I love you.
00:58 And I love you too, Papa.
01:00 Well, now. I won't be reading a "Help Wanted" column anymore, will I?
01:12 But the world goes on.
01:25 Charlie, put that cap down and come and help me with these dishes.
01:29 Oh, no.
01:32 Would you all come in here a moment?
01:34 There's something I think you should be hearing.
01:37 Right on the front page.
01:40 "Is there a Santa Claus?"
01:46 We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below,
01:51 expressing at the same time our great gratification
01:55 that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of the sun.
01:59 "Dear editor, I am eight years old.
02:02 Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
02:06 Papa says if you see it in the sun, it's so.
02:10 Please tell me the truth. Is there a Santa Claus?
02:14 And it's signed, Virginia O'Hanlon."
02:18 Well, Papa, what does it say?
02:21 "Virginia, your little friends are wrong."
02:26 "They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.
02:30 They do not believe except what they see.
02:34 They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds.
02:39 All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little.
02:44 In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect.
02:48 An ant in his intellect has compared with the boundless world about him.
02:52 Has measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole truth and knowledge.
02:56 Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
03:00 He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.
03:05 And you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy.
03:10 Alas, how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus.
03:14 It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias.
03:19 There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.
03:25 We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight.
03:30 The external life with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
03:35 Not believe in Santa Claus, you might as well not believe in fairies.
03:40 You might get your Papa to hire men to watch in all the children's houses.
03:45 You might get your Papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus.
03:51 But even if they do not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove?
03:56 Nobody sees Santa Claus.
03:59 The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor man can see.
04:05 Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn?
04:09 Of course not.
04:11 But that's not proof that they are not there.
04:14 Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseen.
04:19 Unseeable in the world.
04:21 You tear apart a baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside.
04:25 But there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest men,
04:31 nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart.
04:39 Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain
04:47 and view the supernal beauty and glory beyond.
04:51 Is it all real?
04:54 Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else as real and abiding.
05:02 No Santa Claus?
05:06 Thank God he lives and he lives forever.
05:09 A thousand years from now, Virginia.
05:12 Nay, ten times ten thousand years from now.
05:16 He will continue to make glad the hearth of childhood.
05:23 [The End]
05:26 *Cri*