1878. J 
Feeling and Energy. 
395 
actions alternating with feeling are those only which arise in 
the nerves, — or organs of feeling and adtion, — and not in the 
muscles, whose adtion, though doubtless preceded by feeling 
in themselves, are no more to be considered as exponents of 
the nervous adtion than the explosion of a powder-magazine 
is an exponent of the energy present in the ignited match. 
Even the hypothesis of concomitance is by the new hypo- 
thesis accounted for, by reason of the brevity of the period 
of transformation of feeling into energy, which practically 
makes the two series of affedtions have the appearance of 
concomitance. 
The new hypothesis sheds a new light upon Feeling and 
Energy alike ; for if it be corredt, then there is no “ enduring” 
feeling stridtly so-called. What is called an “ enduring ” 
feeling is really a succession of inconceivably brief mental 
states interrupted by dynamical states, as a musical note is 
the repetition of sound-impulses interrupted by periods of 
silence. 
