2768. * with the human being. If the father and mother know their children are their own, or if they think they are even if they are not, still they love them as their own, so there is no aura of love conjoining them except their thinking they are their own-no other than the aura of love of self and the world. Neither do the children recognize the parents unless they have been so instructed, differently from brute animals-a clear sign that the life of the human being is against the order of nature; besides countless other confirmations. This good spirits also acknowledged to be true. * 2767 is lacking in the original.