2301. 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 good^a 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.

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