AC 1272 - Loving Children

AC 1272

. . . the brutes also, even the worst,
all have a love for their young;
and that this is no evidence
that there is anything good in them;
but that if they had loved children,
not from their love of themselves and their own glory,
but that human society might be augmented,
for the common good;
and especially if they had loved them
in order that heaven might thereby be multiplied,
thus for the sake of the Lord's kingdom,
then their love for children would have been genuine.