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perplexed. So, he (the old prisoner) would not be quick in learning the speech and accepting the education, just as the young prisoner would be, without intellect. Then, if he had been born intellectual, he would find insulted when he sees himself being carried, breast-fed, wrapped with the clothes, lying down in the cradle, because he is not needless from all of this due to the fragility of his body and the wetness when he was born. Then, he would not find the sweetness for him and the occurrences in the hearts what the child finds, so he would go out into the world being stupid and heedless about what is therein from its people, so he would meet the things with a weak mind and with deficient understanding. Then he would not cease being increased in the understanding, little by little, and a thing after a thing, and a situation after a situation, until he is familiar with the things and continues upon them. So, he goes out from a limit of observation of it and the confusion regarding it, to the dispersing and the desperation to the livelihood with his intellect and his means, and to the learning of lessons, and the obedience, and the forgetfulness, and the heedlessness, and the disobedience. And in this as well, there is another aspect. If he had been born with complete intellect, independent with himself, the subject of the sweetness of the upbringing of the children would be gone, and it would not happen for the parents in their engagement with the child for its interests, and it would not obligate the upbringing for the parents upon the children from the educating with the righteousness, and the kindness upon them during their need to that from them. Then, the children would not be familiar with their parents nor would the parents be familiar with their children, because the children would have been needless from the upbringing of the parents and their protection. So, they would be separate from them when they are born, and the man would not recognise his father and his mother, not be prevented from marrying his own mother, and his sister, and the ones of sanctity from him when he does not recognise them. And the least of the ugliness of what is in that – but, it is the most terrible, and most grievous, and the most horrible, and the ugliest, and the worst is – if the new born had come out from the belly of its mother and he is of intellect, he would see from her what is not Permissible for him, nor is it good with him that he sees it. Do you not see how upright everything from the