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Whitelaw Reid: Must the crawling baby, then, be abandoned by its natural or accidental guardian, and left to itself to grow strong by…

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Must the crawling baby, then, be abandoned by its natural or accidental guardian, and left to itself to grow strong by struggling, or to perish, as may happen?
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Whitelaw Reid

Editor's note · Context

Reid poses a rhetorical question about the responsibility of guardianship over those who are struggling.

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