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In general young children are in disposition either celestial or spiritual. Those of a celestial disposition are unmistakably different from those of a spiritual disposition. The former are more gentle
in thought, speech, and action, so that hardly anything is seen except something radiating from a love of gooda to the Lord and towards other young children; whereas the latter are not so gentle in
what they think, say, and do, but something like a fluttering of wings reveals itself in everything they do - as is also evident, among other things, from their anger. Thus each small child varies in
disposition from every other, and each is brought up in ways that accord with his individual disposition.
Notes
a a love of good represents the Latin, but Sw. possibly intended the good of love. But see Heaven
and Hell 339 where the same words occur.