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/ "That babies don't commit such crimes as forgery is true, / But little sins develop, if you leave them to accrue; / For anything you know, they'll represent, if you're alive, / A burglary or murder at the age of thirty-five."
When W. S. Gilbert wrote these lines, he stated in an amusing way a great / truth, for the doctrine of infant depravity and original sin thus lightly / touched upon is, when stripped of its Calvinistic mummery, a recognized / scientific verity.