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exciting the emotion; elements due to motor-sensations 

 and impressions concerned in the active response, gesture, 

 and expression ; elements due to visceral action derived 

 from glands, heart, lungs, digestive organs, and so forth ; 

 and a number of elements of a re-presentative kind called 

 up by association and due to previous experience. For the 

 practical observer and interpreter of human or animal life, 

 the emotion is the net result of the experience which 

 includes all these diverse elements. The psychologist has 

 a special purpose in view. He analyses the complex bit of 

 experience, being desirous of ascertaining just where in the 

 midst of this complex whole the characteristically emotional 

 quality has its seat, and just how it had its origin in 

 primary genesis. And he reaches the conclusion, if our 

 discussion be adequate, that the characteristic quality of 

 emotion as congenital is to be found in the visceral factor, 

 and endeavours to explain its mode of origin in the 

 genetic development of experience. 



