TEE EMOTIONS. 485 



This is all I have to say about the emotions. If oue 

 should seek to name each particular oue of them of which 

 the human heart is the seat, it is plain that the limit to their 

 number would lie in the introspective vocabulary of the 

 seeker, each race of men having found names for some 

 shade of feeling which other races have left undiscrimi- 

 nated. If then w^e should seek to break the emotions, thus 

 enumerated, into groups, according to their affinities, it is 

 again plain that all sorts of groupings Avould be pos- 

 sible, according as we chose this character or that as a 

 basis, and that all groupings would be equally real and 

 true. The only question would be, does this grouping or 

 that suit our purpose best? The reader may then class 

 the emotions as he will, as sad or joyous, sthenic or 

 asthenic, natural or acquired, inspired by animate or inani- 

 mate things, formal or material, sensuous or ideal, direct 

 or reflective, egoistic or non-egoistic, retrospective, pros- 

 pective or immediate, organismally or environmentally 

 initiated, or what more besides. All these are divisions 

 which have been actually proposed. Each of them has its 

 merits, and each one brings together some emotions which 

 the others keep apart. For a fuller account, and for other 

 classificatory schemes, I refer to the Appendix to Bain's 

 Emotions and the Will, and to Mercier's, Stanley's, and 

 Read's articles on the Emotions, in Mind, vols, ix, x, and xi. 

 In vol. IX. p. 421 there is also an article by the lamented 

 Edmund Gurney in criticism of the view which in this 

 chapter I continue to defend. 



