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first developed of the positive sensations, it may also be regarded as a 

 type of all the rest. Unsatisfied chemism, which as observed above is 

 the essential antecedent of hunger, is a condition in which the poles or 

 bonds of the molecules remain unengaged and ununited. (See fig. 403.) 

 I conjecture that it is the energy of the polar forces of these unen- 

 gaged bonds that expends itself in setting up the positive sensation; 

 the sensation being the reflection into the nervous ganglia of this un- 

 satisfied attraction, an attraction without an object at hand to be at- 

 tracted. The principle is the same for the other forms of positive sen- 

 sation, the difference being in details. There are numerous subdivisions 

 of hunger. We may be hungry for something sweet or something sour, 

 substantial or delicate, dry or wet, or some special thing, as potatoes or 

 beef, or kraut or beer. These different sorts of hunger depend upon 

 the fact that different sets of tissues are involved, some being deficient 

 in and demanding one element, and some another, the energy of the 

 deficiency or demand transferred to a nervous ganglion becoming the 

 sensation of that particular want. 



All sorts of desires naturally range themselves alongside of hunger, 

 as belonging to the class of positive sensations. Earliest among these 

 are the desires for sexual companionship, for shelter, for clothes, and 

 then for wealth generally. Following these come desires for power, 

 fame, distinction, intellectual and esthetic gratifications. Mixed with 

 these desires and scarcely separable from them are such sensations as 

 love, sympathy, affection, pity, piety, hope, aspiration, joy, anticipa- 

 tion, gladness, which are more or less compound. Sometimes the terms 

 are used without discrimination. Thus if a man has no wealth he may 

 desire it. If he has enough he may love what he has, and not desire 

 any more. A swain desires his sweetheart but loves his wife. A 

 mother loves her children, after they are born; before that she desires 

 them. It often happens that the two sensations are expressed by one 

 word and not properly distinguished. But love is akin to the sense of 

 satiety or satisfaction that follows the removal of the conditions of 

 hunger. If one continues to eat after he is satisfied, the result becomes 

 disgust. Love follows desire, as the object of desire comes within 

 reach, thus becoming in part incorporated with our personality; the de- 

 sire, a hunger, being gradually appeased as the unengaged bonds of the 

 tissues involved are one by one saturated. A so-called love known to 

 be hopeless by the one who entertains it, is not love at all in the proper 

 sense of the term, but infatuated desire. Love then appears, as desire 

 is satisfied, and does not reach its full estate till desire is entirely elimi- 

 nated. 



The man who spends his life in scrambling for wealth, after he al- 

 ready possesses a fortune, can hardly be said to love wealth so much as 



