《纽约时报》社论,回答一个孩子有没有圣诞老人的
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我记得其中一句是:(不太准确,大意不差)怎么能没有圣诞老人?没有圣诞老人,就像世界上没有像你这样可爱的孩子……
不是纽约时报,是纽约太阳报的社论,作者叫Francis P. Church。原文如下:
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Editorial Page, New York Sun, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
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
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a sceptical 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 ab