1269. That same spirit who had been shown to have murdered a certain innocent person by poison [n. 1260] appears to have been such that [he could not] from any reason, however true, desist from the desire of revenging even unto death. He stayed with me, and he was such that all the reasons which were mentioned were of no avail whatever, as they did not even enter into his perception, but were as nothing. Perceiving this at length, I also perceived that he was not like a man who admits the reasons of men and turns them over in his mind, but like a beast.