There may be a few exceptions, but they are very rare, and there is no reason why parents should expect their particular children to be the exceptions.
You may see a man of mature age, kind-hearted, absolutely benevolent and just. And you may learn that when he was a baby he bit his nurse, lied, and was cruel to animals and to other children.
But parents are stupidly egotistical, and believe that their pretty children ought to be born morally perfect.
This moral perfection can be obtained only as the result of education.
Don't expect your children to be models of virtue.
Don't brutalize them by punishments and contempt because you discover that their primitive mental life duplicates the mental conditions of inferior animals.
Set them a good example, and by education make them what you want them to be.
The ignorant and stupid belief that children are born naturally good accounts for the brutality of many fathers and the ruin of many young lives, making cowards of children, accentuating their untruthfulness and cowardice and their cruelty through a desire for revenge.
TWO THIN LITTLE BABIES ARE LEFT
The authorities of New York City, at this writing, have two babies to give away.