288. [264.] Concerning preestablished harmony, Leibniz said that he conceived of it and deduced it from the fact that thought operates in union with a person's speech, countenance, and action, and that he had not considered at the time the more interior thought, which most people do not manifest in speech or act, and which in many cases wars with their outer thought. Still less had he considered spiritual thought, which a person does not come into until after death. He also said that in the world he had not reflected on anything but thought, which he had regarded as occupying the place of the soul, and had not considered at the same time affection, as a result of which and in accordance with which a person thinks. Consequently now, after having been instructed by angels, he confesses that he erred, and knows that the case is altogether otherwise.