Difference (from prior major revision)
(author diff)
Changed: 3c3
Dr. O'Hanlon told his little daughter to write to the Sun, a prominent New York newspaper? at the time, in the assurance that the paper would tell her the truth. While he was undoubtedly passing the buck because he couldn't bear to tell his daughter that Santa Claus was a myth, he unwittingly gave one of paper's editors, Francis Pharcellus Church, an opportunity to rise above the simple question, and to speak to the philosophical issues behind it.
Dr. O'Hanlon told his little daughter to write to the Sun, a prominent New York newspaper? at the time, in the assurance that the paper would tell her the truth. While he was undoubtedly passing the buck because he couldn't bear to tell his daughter that Santa Claus was a myth, he unwittingly gave one of paper's editors, Francis Pharcellus Church, an opportunity to rise above the simple question, and to speak to the philosophical issues behind it.
![[Home]](wikipedia.png)