The same ones who were continually plotting deceptions, and were so intent upon them that they hardly paused, were warned by the others to stop. But they admitted that they could not, even if it meant they should die. Others, too, on several occasions have admitted the same thing, that is, that they could not possibly stop. And each time they were told that this is no excuse - for if it were, all devils would exculpate themselves - but that they should go away, or else be driven away, until by fitting types of punishment they begin to feel disgust at doing such things. So by different methods of punishment, they must be divested of evils, as usually takes place. Hence one may infer that it is their natural instinct, acquired in bodily life, not only to feel the greatest pleasure in such evils, but also to be possessed of such a desire for them, that they cannot desist from them, just as wild animals cannot refrain from tearing apart [their prey]. 1748, 5 February.