There is another most important side to suggestion, and that is an impression on one's conscience of "I have done wrong," "I have done something which was unjust," "I was not fair; it was beneath my dignity." No doubt this impression is produced by the good side of a person's being, but often it results in something bad. For what happens is that first comes the idea of having done wrong, and then in time that feeling is blunted and a person begins to bear it and think that it is all right. But as the impression of having done wrong remains and continues to act upon him, this makes him do worse and worse. Thus a man who has been in prison very often continues to go to prison, continues to commit the same crime. The reason is that he is impressed by that crime, and the spirit which opposes it has become blunted. He is now accustomed both to his crime and to the punishment; in other words he has become master of the situation.