472 PSYCHOLOGY. 



and let the pictures go, but before leaving drew reverently 

 near to them to learn with what superior forms of suscepti- 

 bility they might be endowed, all I overheard was the 

 woman's voice murmuring : " What a deprecatory expression 

 her face wears ! What self-abnega^iow / How umvorthy 

 she feels of the honor she is receiving!" Their honest 

 hearts had been kept warm all the time by a glow of spuri- 

 ous sentiment that would have fairly made old Titian sick, 

 Mr. Kuskin somewhere makes the (for him terrible) admis- 

 sion that religious people as a rule care little for pictures, 

 and that when they do care for them they generally prefer 

 the worst ones to the best. Yes ! in every art, in every 

 science, there is the keen perception of certain relations 

 being right or not, and there is the emotional flush and thrill 

 consequent thereupon. And these are two things, not one. 

 In the former of them it is that experts and masters are at 

 home. The latter accompaniments are bodily commotions 

 that they may hardly feel, but that may be experienced in 

 their fulness by cretins and philistines in whom the critical 

 judgment is at its lowest ebb. The ' marvels ' of Science, 

 about which so much edifying popular literature is written, 

 are apt to be ' caviare ' to the men in the laboratories. And 

 even divine Philosophy itself, which common mortals con- 

 sider so * sublime ' an occupation, on account of the vast- 

 ness of its data and outlook, is too apt to the practical 

 philosopher himself to be but a sharpening and tightening 

 business, a matter of ' points,' of screwing down things, of 

 splitting hairs, and of the ' intent ' rather than the ' extent ' 

 of conceptions. Yery little emotion here ! — except the 

 efi"ort of setting the attention fine, and the feeling of ease 

 and relief (mainly in the breathing apparatus) when the 

 inconsistencies are overcome and the thoughts run smoothly 

 for a while. Emotion and cognition seem then parted even 

 in this last retreat ; and cerebral processes are almost feel- 

 ingless, so far as we can judge, until they summon help 

 from parts below. 



NO SPECIAL BRAIN-CENTRES FOR EMOTION. 



If the neural process underlying emotional conscious- 

 ness be what I have now sought to prove it, the physi- 



