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paths created for other ends. His theory of 

 the emotions is that " the bodily changes follow 

 directly the perception of the exciting fact, and 

 that our feeling of the same changes as they 

 occur is the emotion." If the bodily states did 

 not follow the perception, there would be no 

 feeling beyond the ordinary sensations which 

 accompany perceptions. When bodily changes 

 are felt they create the emotion. This state- 

 ment of facts harmonizes with my view, but 

 the terms must be made more definite. For 

 " exciting fact " we must put adverse elements, 

 because they alone create emotions. Favor- 

 able elements acting through structure seldom 

 come into consciousness with enough force to 

 cause emotion. Emotion is due to the unex- 

 pected event that causes a flow of energy in 

 new channels. This outgo of energy is not 

 the emotion, but emotion is its destructive 

 effects upon the mechanical relations that have 

 grown up between the organism and the con- 

 stant elements of the environment. The vaso- 

 motor system, ordinarily involved in carrying 

 off waste products and in replacing devitalized 

 structure, is now excited and its increased 



