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Show Santa Claus I and Others There is nothing truer than. a fairy tale. It is the, quin- j tessence of what Aristotle calls :; the probable impossibility. The best of the fairy talcs are j folklore, gieing the boiled- :; X down wisdom of centuries of ! experience, and tii e truths they I; teach are the old. old facts of i !; human nature put into visible j' form for childish minds to ;j ; grasp. These tales do not !; !; teach morals by precept, but ''. truths by example, says Col- ;; ; Ijer's. So amount of teach- I; !; ;i;7 about the brotherhood of ' h man, and Christmas kindness, ; and the rewards of virtue, can . have sucli an effect, on the y '1 small, objective soul as is pro- ; duced by the vision of Santa !; !; Clans with his white beard and l twinlly eyes coming with toys ; ; for good little boys and ; switches for bad little boys, '', ! shedding jollity and benevo- ;! ' lence all over the place. Long ; ; years from, now, when every i I', incident of these stories is lost i j! to the memory, the knowledge ; of fundamental human values i will remain. Teach the chil- t dren fairy tales and you tearh ? !; them the wisdom of the ages. 5 |