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 CHAPTER IV. 



EMOTION AND ITS RELATION TO THE SUBJECT. 



Though emotion manifests in the transactions of inter-com- 

 munication among animals a principal factor, it is available to 

 render this point a brief elucidation, so far as it is related to the 

 subject. 



It must be understood that emotion is also a form of life, 

 like others, subject to expansion and intensity in equal synthetical 

 progression with the transcendental faculties of others. This rela- 

 tion implies the tendency that emotion has been originated simul- 

 taneously with intellect from the same source, and in parallel 

 evolution with the intellect equally expanded. 



Both originate in the first pathetical manifestation of the 

 transcendental being, that is, the idea or motive of individualiza- 

 tion. Both forms, intellect and emotion, have then become ex- 

 panded intellect with power, emotion with intensity of feelings 

 solely by the predominating fundamental motive of individualiza- 

 tion, to maintain existence. 



Moreover, intellect and emotion constitute the intellectual and 

 pathetical basis of the transcendental being (the soul) of the 

 organic being. Intellect implies the faculties of sight and reflecti- 

 bility (meditation); emotion implies a perpetual feeling of want, 

 the determining motive to maintain individuality. 



This indicates that emotion, in itself, is neither a form of 

 energy nor any other special form of ability. Emotion is merely 

 a pathetical effect, implying the consequent motivation of pleasant 

 feeling, in order to maintain existence. It will remain latent, 

 unless external influences endeavor to menace the existence of 

 individuality. This will affect the pathetical being (the soul), 

 feeling unpleasant, and which results in excitement, and naturally 

 these pathetical excitements of the soul are emotional effects. 



Though the fundamental motivation of the emotional effect is 

 to maintain individuality, the manifestation logically involves a 

 perpetual objectivity, respectively, an intellectual scoping of trans- 

 cendental being (soul) to acquire that which it thinks necessary 

 and available for its individuality. This is the constant emotional 

 desire of organic beings, and which impels them to obtain those 

 scoped objects in the shortest way, that is, in relation to the 



