| ### QUESTION 101 ### OF THE CONDITION OF THE OFFSPRING AS REGARDS KNOWLEDGE ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We next consider the condition of the offspring as to knowledge. Under this head there are two points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether in the state of innocence children would have been born with perfect knowledge? #### (2) Whether they would have had perfect use of reason at the moment of birth? ####  |