• Malebranche: Since the Fall they are in us, even in spite of ourselves (James p. 123).
• Pascal: siehe James p. 238.
• Über den Moment, an dem Adam die Tiere benennt: James p. 250.

AT VII 48,6:

Atque, si a me essem, nec dubitarem.

In early-modern writing, our constitutional inability to govern our emotions is often attributed to the Fall; as punishment for Adam's sin, God removed from us the capacity to control, moderate, and redirect them, creating the inward chaos that is the lot of all but very few exceptional people (James p. 13).