 All people desire happiness, indeed the ultimate happiness, what he calls the blessed life. But how can they desire it unless they know what it is? And how can they know what it is if they don't possess it? Somehow they must be remembering it, as if they once knew it, but have forgotten it. Augustine asks, did God somehow grant us each in the beginning of our existence a knowledge of happiness, of blessedness? Or just as we have inherited original sin from Adam and Eve, have we somehow inherited and are now remembering the original knowledge of happiness of those first parents? When they experienced a blessed life in the Garden of Eden, which we now see only faintly in a kind of universal intergenerational memory.