And so even if it is true that whatever happens in the brain of the mother also happens at the same time in that of her child, that the mother can neither see nor feel anything, nor imagine anything, without the child seeing, feeling, and imagining the same thing, and finally that all the mother's false traces corrupt the child's imagination, nevertheless, if these traces are unnatural in the sense just explained, there is no need to be surprised if they are ordinarily closed as soon as the infant leaves the mother's womb.