"If we bring up our children to believe in Father Christmas, it is not simply because we want to mislead them: It is also because their enthusiasm gives ourselves fresh warmth. Through them, we contrive to deceive ourselves also, and to believe, as they believe, that a world of unqualified generosity is not absolutely incompatible with reality". (Claude Lévi Strauss, 1955 [1961]: 230)
country: Great Britain
year: 1968
Yvert: 546
!["If we bring up our children to believe in Father Christmas, it is not simply because we want to mislead them: It is also because their enthusiasm gives ourselves fresh warmth. Through them, we contrive to deceive ourselves also, and to believe, as they believe, that a world of unqualified generosity is not absolutely incompatible with reality". (Claude Lévi Strauss, 1955 [1961]: 230)](https://encyclopaediaphilatelica.net/storage/uploads/64b700178123e-phpb68mll.jpeg)