It is a common thing, and may therefore be familiar to everyone, that when any thought, feeling, or desire prevails in a person's mind, then everything that is done by others, and everything the person hears, bends around in that direction. Hence those who are promiscuous, spoken of earlier [1663-5, 1694-8], turn whatever they hear into lewd pictures in their minds, and these into lewd utterances. It is the same in other cases.