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The Friendship of Kindred is likewise of many kinds, and appears

in all its varieties to depend on the Parental: parents, I mean,

love their children as being a part of themselves, children love

their parents as being themselves somewhat derived from them. But

parents know their offspring more than these know that they are

from the parents, and the source is more closely bound to that

which is produced than that which is produced is to that which

formed it: of course, whatever is derived from one's self is

proper to that from which it is so derived (as, for instance, a

tooth or a hair, or any other thing whatever to him that has it):

but the source to it is in no degree proper, or in an inferior

degree at least.