(1) An evil person possesses these two faculties just as much as a good one. (2) An evil person abuses these faculties to defend evils and falsities, whereas a good person uses them to defend goods and truths. (3) Confirmed evils and falsities remain in a person and become matters of his love and so of his life. (4) Qualities that have become matters of one's love and life are passed on hereditarily to offspring. (5) All evils, both those inborn and those additionally acquired, have their seat in the natural mind.