4612. Also, on the other hand, the affections of good can be, and are wont to be, crushed, by principles of the false: namely, when the false is accepted as true. For instance: when anyone is in conjugial love, and adopts the principle that to love his wife is only an obligation by virtue of the external contract, and nothing more:-if any one confirms himself in this false principle, he then destroys conjugial love, and turns it into lasciviousness, and, at the same time, regards adulteries as unimportant. It is so with all things else: as, also, be who adopts the principle that piety and the goods of charity avail nothing: from this principle he destroys charity and the affection of good, and is no longer careful about the life; and so forth.