QUESTION 101

OF THE CONDITION OF THE OFFSPRING AS REGARDS KNOWLEDGE

(In Two Articles)

We next consider the condition of the offspring as to knowledge.

Under this head there are two points of inquiry:

(1) Whether in the state of innocence children would have been born

with perfect knowledge?

(2) Whether they would have had perfect use of reason at the moment

of birth?

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