GENESIS OF MAN, MORALLY 



those who are weak and nervous. These facts 

 show that the development of sympathy is 

 largely determined by the development of the 

 representative faculty and by increasing width 

 and variety of experience. With the simplest 

 form of sympathy, such as the painful thrill felt 

 on seeing some one in a dangerous position, 

 contrast such a complex sentiment as the sense 

 of injustice, and it becomes evident that the 

 latter feeling differs from the former mainly in 

 degree and quantity of representativeness. In 

 the former case there is a representation of the 

 injury or death impending over some person 

 immediately in sight ; and it is the shrinking 

 from this detriment to the fulness of life of an- 

 other person which constitutes the sympathetic 

 feeling. In the latter case — supposing, for ex- 

 ample, the kind of injustice in question to be 

 that against which English-speaking people have 

 made provision in habeas corpus acts — there is 

 the sympathetic excitement of that highly repre- 

 sentative egoistic sentiment known as the love of 

 personal freedom. At first a mere recalcitration 

 against whatever impedes the free action of the 

 limbs, this egoistic feeling has, through increased 

 power of representation, developed into a dis- 

 like and dread of whatever possible combination 

 of circumstances may in any way, however re- 

 motely, interfere with the fullest legitimate exer- 

 cise of all the functions of physical and psychical 

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