A short story by
Isaac Asimov about scientists who discover how to bring objects from the
past into a "Statis" field in the
present. If the objects are removed from the Statis field, vast amounts of
energy will be consumed. Also, it is easier to reach into the distant past than the nearer past. The scientists have just progressed from bringing dinosaurs and prehistoric rocks to bringing a
Neanderthal child. His nurse, Miss Fellowes, comes to love him and to resent him being treated as an experimental
animal rather than a child, until eventually she has to try to stop her superiors from sending him back to his own time.