865. Calluses in which are mingled such things as savor of deceits, as when men desired to deceive their neighbor by guile, cannot be so easily softened and loosened; wherefore this is effected by means of the punishments of being torn apart by opposing things, concerning which see above [nos. 404, 515]. Thus the spirit is placed between two opposing agencies or opposing operations, nor can he get away therefrom; and so he is torn asunder with the greatest suffering. The like happens to those - especially merchants - who without conscience desire to take away the property of their neighbors by deceit when they can, unless prevented by many things, such as the laws, gain and similar things; nor do they suppose that they thereby injure anything of conscience. There are also others who have a like "animus", whether they have exercised it, or whether they have desired to do so, and only the place and occasion restrained them from carrying it into action. 1748, Feb. 18.