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Excerpt from Satan and His Ancestors, From a Psychological Standpoint The distinction between demons and devils has not always been strictly adhered to, because they have not at all times been so clearly separated. In the minds of their advocates. In general, however, demon simply means a natural agent of physical (and sometimes mental) pain or suffering. These did evil because it was a part of them, and no one expected anything else of them. From such a. Standpoint, theoretically, they could not be blamed, but, because of inconsistent man, this has not always been the case. A devil proper is one who does evil for its own sake. He could do either, but chooses evil in preference to good. The first half of, the paper was meant to deal simply with the historical development of Satan and his forbears. It has been impossible and needless to draw the line very distinctly. Many attempted explanations would creep in from a more philosophical standpoint. The second half has its special introduction. In brief it is an attempted explanation of the rise, growth, and death of Satan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.