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kindly expression of countenance, as indicated 

 by the sanguineous temperament, agreeably to 

 their undigested notions concerning the relation 

 existing between the heart and the moral action 

 or sentiments of the mind. 



CCCXCI. That physiologists in modern 

 times should have been so far regulated by vul- 

 gar opinion as to adopt it in their arguments, in 

 support of the same views, is somewhat extraor- 

 dinary. If the organs which were endowed with 

 passion had exhibited no obvious functions, it 

 might then have been reasonable to attribute to 

 them the origin of every emotion ; but since 

 there is no viscus in the chest thus unoccupied, 

 we cannot allow the imaginative mind to indulge 

 in its fancies at the expence of common sense. 



SECT. 11. The Phenomena and Physiology of Passion. 



CCCXCII. THERE are few terms more fre- 

 quently employed, or more abused, than that of 

 passion. It is common to bestow it on a variety 

 of states of the mind that have not the least si- 

 militude to each other, either in the causes by 

 which they are determined, or in the effects by 

 which they are characterized. If it be defined a 

 perturbation of the mind, accompanied by visible 

 alterations in any of the general systems of the 

 body, a great number of mental conditions will 



