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pected that the results can be at once rightly formulated 

 All that may be looked for are approximate generalizations 

 which will presently serve for the better directing of in 

 quiry. Hence, even were it not now possible to say in what 

 way it does so, we might be tolerably certain that Mr. 

 Bain's work bears the stamp of the inchoate state of Psy- 

 chology. 



We think, however, that it will not be difficult to find 

 in what respects its organization is provisional ; and at the 

 same time to show what must be the nature of a more 

 complete organization. We propose here to attempt this : 

 illustrating our positions from his recently-issued second 

 volume. 



Is it possible to make a true classification without the 

 aid of analysis ? or must there not be an analytical basis to 

 every true classification ? Can the real relations of things 

 be determined by the obvious characteristics of the things? 

 DT does it not commonly happen that certain hidden 

 characteristics, on which the obvious ones depend, are 

 the truly significant ones ? This is the preliminary ques- 

 tion which a glance at Mr. Bain's scheme of the emotions 

 suggests. 



Though not avowedly, yet by implication, Mr. Bain 

 assumes that a right conception of the nature, the order, 

 and the relations of the emotions, may be arrived at by 

 contemplating their conspicuous objective and subjective 

 characters, as displayed in the adult. After pointing out 

 that we lack those means of classification which serve in 

 the case of the sensations, he says — 



" In these circumstances we must turn our attention to t7i6 

 manner of diffusion of the different passions and emotions, in 

 order to obtain a basis of classification analogous to the arrange- 

 ment of the sensations. If what we have already advanced on 

 that subject be at all well founded, this is the genuine turning 



