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able conception, becomes present (is felt), the effort terminates; 

 that is to say, the desires and aversions are satisfied or con- 

 tented, or the foreseeings are fulfilled (Baumgarten, § 450). 

 When the objects of these are true external sensations, the 

 mind cannot produce them independently of the proper ante- 

 cedent external impression (34, 27) ; consequently, desires and 

 aversions of this kind cannot be fulfilled or satisfied without 

 the external impression itself. 



Note. — It will be necessary to bear in mind the definitions 

 of the word feeling, as given in the Note to § 34. 



82. The efforts of the conceptive force are special applications 

 of its power with the object of producing a certain special con- 

 ception (81); and they manifest their actions on the brain 

 through similar efforts of the cerebral forces^ to develope a 

 certain material idea suitable to the conception (26). It is, 

 consequently, the same also in the desires and aversions (81). 



83. Since pleasure and pain are the motives of the efforts, 

 and consequently the bases of the desires and aversions (80, 81), 

 in which relation they are incitements of the feelings, it follows 

 that the impressions of pleasure or pain of a foreseen conception 

 excite to that extent an effort of the cerebral forces to produce 

 the material idea of this future conception (81, 82), and this 

 is the material expression of the desire or aversion in the brain. 



84. 85, 86, 87. In every desire and aversion, consequently, 

 we must distinguish : 



i. The foreseeing and expectation of a future sensation, or 

 of one the opposite to it, which therefore consists of the sub- 

 impressions of the future sensation [merkmale], and excites 

 material ideas in the brain, that are partly the material ideas 

 of the coming sensation or its opposite, and consequently con- 

 stitute an imperfect material sensation. 



ii. The incitements of the feelings — pleasure or pain — which 

 communicate the impression of pleasure or pain to the imperfect 

 material sensation in the brain (80). 



iii. The spontaneous effort of the mind to develope the 

 entire foreseen conception, or its opposite, which is connected 



' As the animal-sentient forces [Thierische seelenkrafte] are peculiar to the brain, 

 the term " cerebral force," here used by Unzer himself in that sense, will be used to 

 designate them whenever it maybe most in accordance with previous definitions, 25. 

 —Ed. 



