398. (x) The more innocence in children withdraws, the more affection and linking decline; and this continues gradually until it results in separation.
It is well known that the love of children or parental affection diminishes in proportion to the diminution of the innocence from them; and this proceeds to the point of children leaving home in the case of human beings, and in the case of animals and birds, to the point of being driven from their presence and forgetting that they are their offspring. This as a confirmed piece of evidence can serve to establish that innocence flowing in on both sides produces the love known as parental affection.
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