![I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small, we feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that [God] might feel.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-doubt-if-anyone-of-any-tenderness-or-imagination-can-see-the-hand-of-a-child-an.jpg)
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