“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.” ChildrenReasonFeelingsSufferingImaginationIgnoranceDegreesAdultsCapacityConvictionIntenseHelplessness Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)