This means as much among the natural as among the spiritual. But they possess conjugial love, while the others do not, except for an appearance and pretence of it. The reason why the love of children and conjugial love act as one is that conjugial love is implanted in every woman from creation, and together with it the love of procreating, which is concentrated on and imparted to the offspring procreated. This is transferred from women to men, as was said above [393]. That is why it is that in homes where there is no conjugial love between husband and wife it may still exist with the wife, so that by its means some outward linking with the husband is possible. It is for the same reason that even prostitutes love their children. For what is implanted in souls from creation and has the propagation of the race as its aim is incapable of being wiped out or eradicated.