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of muscles follow ; then impulse dominates, and the tendency 

 to spring to the defensive arises ; all this before judgment an- 

 nounced that the cook has slammed the range door. Granting 

 that the illustration has served to indicate the meaning of the 

 statement above, it need require but brief experiment and self- 

 observation to show that vaso-motor and organic changes always 

 accompany and afford a sensational basis for feelings. A just 

 analysis will not neglect the subjective process in construing the 

 physical. Stripped of the sensations above referred to, and the 

 instincts and impulses associated with them, the residuum is 

 still not to be passed over. ' ' A feelingless cognition that cer- 

 tain circumstances are deplorable," or otherwise, may be, and 

 generally is, but the first step in a series of judgments or repre- 

 sentations out of which spring the involuntary acts which are 

 the really important results of emotion. The sensational ele- 

 ment is that which represents the general, though subtle, bod- 

 ily effect of the stimulus (be it physical or psychical), while it 

 serves to awaken within us the empirical ego (the sum of our 

 purely subjective bodily reactions on consciousness), which 

 gives point or poignancy to the following psychical processes and 

 links self with phenomena, awakening the participation of the 

 soul in the states of the body, or of other beings, which other- 

 wise might concern us only as do phenomena in Mars. It is 

 then no mere figure which localizes the emotions in the heart or 

 bowels, but a statement of sober physiological truth. A heart- 

 less man is one whose intellectual appreciation of the results of 

 an act does not awaken sympathetic thrills in his physical being 

 adequate to quicken in him a participatory or sympathetic state. 

 Such a condition may be acquired by habit or produced by her- 

 edity. Practically, we are first interested to study the physical 

 substrata conditioning the emotional temperament and its ex- 

 pressions. 



The sensrtional elements in emotion are, first pains and 

 sense gratifications ; second, obscure organic and total sensa- 

 tions which are not usually perceived as such, but are interpret- 

 ed as part of the feeling ; third, reproduced pains or gratifica- 

 tions always followed or accompanied by total sensations ; 



