There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end. Maturity, with its endless energies and aspirations, may easily be convinced that it will find new things to appreciate; but it will never be convinced, at bottom, that it has properly appreciated what it has got. We may scale the heavens and find new stars innumerable, but there is still the new star we have not found—that on which we were born.
If the writer wished to add a concluding statement to this paragraph, which of these would make the most appropriate choice?

A) Children are just like the rest of humanity; they have their faults and their virtues.
B) Children possess this essential connection to our world, which the rest of us have lost.
C) Though children possess a kind of wisdom, their essential ignorance ought not be forgotten, either.
D) It is often said that "the child is father to the man," and that adage certainly applies in this case.