1310. CONCERNING HEREDITARY AND ACTUAL EVIL That the hereditary evils of parents pass over into the children and grandchildren is sufficiently well known, both from the fact that we are born evil and thus from our seed derive an evil nature, and from the fact that the animus of parents is clearly visible in their posterity as is evident from very many things, as their love of self, love of the world, love of earthly things, and lasciviousness. Thus the evils which have been acquired by parents through actualities, even from the first, pass over unless they are reformed.