GENESIS OF NEW EMOTIONS. 3()1 



tween the emotional natures of savasje and civilized. Amone: 

 be lowest races of men, love of property stimulates to the 

 obtainment only of such things as satisfy immediate desires 

 or desires of the immediate future. Improvidence is the 

 rule : there is httle effort to meet remote contingencies. But 

 the growth of established societies, having gradually given 

 security of possession, there has been an increasing tendency 

 to provide for coming years : there has been a constant 

 exercise of the feehng which is satisfied by a provision for 

 the future ; and there has been a growth of this feeling so 

 great that it now prompts accumulation to an extent be- 

 yond what is needful. Note, again, that under the disci- 

 pline of social life — under a comparative abstinence from 

 aggressive actions, and a performance of those mutually- 

 serviceable actions implied by the division of labour — 

 there has been a development of those gentle emotions of 

 which inferior races exhibit but the rudiments. Savages 

 delight in giving pain rather than pleasure — are almost de- 

 void of sympathy. While among ourselves philanthropy 

 organizes itself in laws, establishes numerous institutions, 

 and dictates countless private benefactions. 



From which and other like facts, does it not seem an 

 unavoidable inference that new emotions are developed by 

 new experiences — new habits of life ? All are familiar with 

 the truth, that in the individual, each feeling maybe strength- 

 ened by performing those actions which it prompts ; and to 

 say that the feeling is strengthened^ is to say that it is in 

 part made by these actions. We know further, that not 

 unfrequently, individuals, by persistence in special courses 

 of conduct, acquire special likings for such courses disagree- 

 able as these may be to others ; and these whims, or mor- 

 bid tastes, imply incipient emotions corresponding to these 

 special activities. We know that emotional characteristics, 

 in common with all others, are hereditary ; and the differ- 

 ences between civilized nations descended from the same 



