The Knowledge of Offspring in the State of Innocence

It is in accord with human nature to acquire knowledge, not to be born with knowledge already in the mind. The fact that man, at birth, is unequipped with knowledge, is not a defect; it is a normal condition of nature. In the state of innocence, children would doubtless have had a perfect aptitude for learning without difficulty, and would have acquired knowledge readily as they advanced in age and experience. But they would not have possessed knowledge from birth.

And therefore children in the state of innocence would not have had the use of reason from earliest infancy. They would have come to the use of reason more readily and perfectly than do children in the fallen state of mankind.