416. So instantaneous is both the shifting of good into evil by various methods, and of a penalty threatening oneself to someone else, that there could hardly be anything quicker; therefore, it must spring from an [evil] rooted in by practice, that becomes second nature. This leads to the conclusion, that hardly anything else holds sway in evil spirits, but a root of evil acquired by inheritance and by practice. 1747, the 28th day of December.