“And this so happened because your favorites, thanks always to the same abnormal conditions of existence, have gradually become, as they themselves say, ‘cowardly’ from head to foot, and because at the same time the need of destroying the existence of others has been inculcated in them, also from head to foot. And so, when they, being already cowards ‘of the highest degree’, are about to destroy the existence of the beings of these other forms, or when they chance to meet such beings – who it must be said, to their misfortune and to our regret, have become at the present time already much stronger than they, physically as well as in other being-attainments – then they become ‘afraid’, as they say there in such case, ‘to the point of wetness’. BTG XLI