As said before, human beings are born into every evil, and they incline toward every evil through the acquisition of evils by the parents one after another from the first, so there is nothing but evil in them. But by bringing them into act they incline more toward one than another. This was shown to me when spirits said to me that I would be feeling the same as they were if I were kept in the same state, which I admitted. But I realized that there had to be an act, consummated in life, in order for someone to be carried more into one evil than another, even if the inclination to the same evil lies hidden in a hereditary root. So if I had acquired the same one by bringing it into act, I would also be the same. To certain evils I was more inclined than to others. 1748, 30 June.