Feel free to remove this, mods, if it’s too tangential to modern science, but I thought the community might find this early nature vs. nurture hypothesis amusing

  • Asetru@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.

    Am I the only one who interpretes this as “well, they died”?