An idea from Confessions

A baby who can’t talk yet goes pale and glares at another baby at the breast. Adults call that innocence. The harsher reading: only its weak limbs are innocent, not its will. That is an interpretation, not a finding, and it belongs to the doctrine of original sin.

From Confessions by Augustine

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