MISATTRIBUTION OF ACTIONS
The Spirit denies the claim that he seeks to deprive people of their means of dining or to close bakeries on the Seventh Day, clarifying that such deeds are done by others who claim to know the Spirit, but are not truly connected to him or his kin. The Spirit asserts these actions should be charged to those who commit them, not to the Spirit.
SPIRIT
'There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us, and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.'