Yes, Steve

[Guest guest]

Steve, your little friends are wrong. They have been

affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do

not believe except they see. They think that nothing

can be which is not comprehensible by their little

minds. All minds, Steve, 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 about him, as

measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the

whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Steve, there is a . 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 ! It would be as dreary as

if there were no Steves. 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.

Not believe in ! You might as well not believe in

fairies. You might get Yahoo to hire internet wizards

to watch in all the Yahoo groups to catch a glimpse of

, but even if you did not see writing his

words, what would that prove? Nobody sees , but

that is no sign that there is no . The most real

things in the world are those that neither children

nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on

the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they

are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the

wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes

the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the

unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the

united strength of all the strongest men that ever

lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love,

romance, can push aside that curtain and view and

picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it

all real? Ah, Steve, in all this world there is

nothing else real and abiding.

No ! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A

thousand years from now, Steve, nay 10 times 10,000

years from now, he will continue to make glad the

hearts of every member of Fat Man Walking.

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