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 external light with which childhood fills the world
would be extinguished...
