Herrick, Modem Algedonic Theories. ii 



processes which accompany or occasion them. All attempts at 

 a purely biological classification of the phenomena of feeling 

 are, especially, to be rejected." 



' ' The character and rate of the change which takes place 

 in the sensational and ideational elements of consciousness deter- 

 mine certain characteristic 'feelings of relation.'" Here also 

 belongs the discussion of the use of drugs etc., in affecting the 

 emotions via effect on cerebral circulation etc. The primary 

 forms of feeling are, however, unlike, as feelmgs, qualitatively 

 and these differences accompany changes in time-rate of their 

 sensational or ideational "occasions." 



CJiapter X. Feeling as Pleasure- Pain. The belief in the 

 derivation of special sensations from primitive pleasure and pain 

 is rejected. Pleasure and pain are opposite "tones" of feeling 

 — both alike positive. Feeling may be dissociated from pleas- 

 ure and pain ; i. e. "neutral feelings " are probably possible. 

 Goldscheider's " pain spots " are rejected as not proven. The 

 pathological evidence — difference of rate of transmission of 

 pain and touch, etc., are explained on the basis of diffusion of 

 pain conductions. 



Pain results from an undue increase of any cerebral pro- 

 cess ; but "the varying amounts of our pleasure-pains do not 

 stand to the varying amounts of our sensations as the latter 

 stand to the varying amounts of stimuli." 



" All human life develops largely by relegating the immedi- 

 ate effects of our activity, as respects the quantities of pleasure 

 or pain evoked, more and more to the background." 



"In general, when the intensity of that unorganizable 

 surplus of nervous excitement, that overflowing commotion of 

 the nervous centres which is the physical basis of feeling, sur- 

 passes certain variable limits, pain is the result. It is, perhaps, 

 because the ideal feelings are usually supported by less of this 

 'semi-chaotic suplus, ' that they are less intense." 



"All elaborate emotions and sentiments generally furnish 

 some reasons why their tone should be one of pleasure, and 

 other reasons why their tone should be one of pain." There 

 are some natural or normal sensations which are painful. 



