17579 THE EMOTIONS GENERAL BY JAMES MCCOSH, D. D., LL.D. 66 PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON COLLEGE; AUTHOR OF METHOD OF DIVINE GOVERNMENT, NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 743 AND 745 BROADWAY 1880 BF 531 .M13 Copyright, 1880, BY JAMES McCOSH. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY PREFACE. I AM not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred into the common thought and literature of modern times. The word "feeling" in English, and the word "sensibility" in French, with their cognate phrases "feel," "sentiment," and "sentir," are very vague and ambiguous. They may embrace two such different mental properties, as sensation on the one hand, and emotions, as of fear, hope, grief, and anger, on the other. Some writers lose themselves and confuse their readers by speaking of all our mental states, even our intellectual exercises, as feelings. The word "Gefühl " in German is scarcely less ambiguous, sometimes designating mere affections of the senses, at other times our higher faiths. Those who translate English, French, and German into Latin and Greek, have always experienced a difficulty in getting words in these classical languages to correspond to those I have named in the modern tongues. It is a curious circumstance that we have no such loose phrase in the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as our “feelings." In these circumstances it is surely desirable to have the emotions separated from the feelings, and to have a renewed attempt to give an analysis, a description, and classification of them, as distinguished from other mental qualities. The vagueness of the idea entertained favors the tendency on the part of the prevailing physiological psychology of the day to resolve all feeling, and our very emotions, into nervous action, and thus gain an important province of our nature to materialism. In this work I treat of the emotions as psychical acts, but I do not overlook their physiological concomitants and effects. I enter little into controversy. My aim has been to expound the truth, and leave it to shine in its own light. 1. Love of Pleasure and Aversion to Pain. 2. Pro- moting Good of others. 3. Personal Attach- ments. 4. Tastes and Talents tending to act. 5. Bodily Appetites. 6. Love of Society. 7. Love of Esteem. 8. Love of Power. 9. Love DIFFERENCES OF APPETENCES IN DIFFERENT IN- DIVIDUALS 272 |