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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. there is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
-D. H. Lawrence
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The Nature Of The Infant Is Not

D. H. Lawrence
The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. there is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.
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