There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two-headed dragons, magic carpets, etc., do not exist; and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them, If their cases were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New, York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girlfriend.
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