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nccompanied by the indefinite pains that result from inherit 

 ed experience vague feelings which we may call organic 

 representations. In an infant, crying at a strange sight or 

 sound while yet in the nurse s arms, we see these organic 

 representations called into existence in the shape of dim 

 discomfort, to which individual experience has yet given 

 no specific outlines. 



Representative feelings, comprehending the ideas of 

 the feelings above classed, when they are called up apart 

 from the appropriate external excitements. As instances 

 of these may be named the feelings with which the descrip 

 tive poet writes, and which are aroused in the minds of his 

 readers. 



He-representative feelings, under which head arc included 

 those more complex sentient states that arc less the direct 

 results of external excitements than the indirect or reflex 

 results of them. The love of property is a feeling of this 

 kind. It is awakened not by the presence of any special 

 object, but by ownable objects at large ; and it is not from 

 the mere presence of such object, but from a certain ideal 

 relation to them, that it arises. As before shown (p. 311) 

 it consists, not of the represented advantages of possessing 

 this or that, but of the represented advantages of posses 

 sion in general is not made up of certain concrete repre 

 sentations, but of the abstracts of many concrete represen 

 tations ; and so is re-representative. The higher senti 

 ments, as that of justice, are still more completely of this 

 nature. Here the sentient state is compounded out of 

 sentient states that are themselves wholly, or almost wholly, 

 re-representative : it involves representations of those low 

 or emotions which are produced by the possession of prop 

 erty, by freedom of action, etc. ; and thus is re-representa 

 tive in a higher degree. 



This classification, here roughly indicated and capable 

 Df further expansion, will be found in harmony with the re- 

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