Chapter I: Preface

This work does not profess to be a treatise on the subject of feeling, but merely a series of studies, and rather tentative ones at that. I have attempted to deduce from the standpoint of biologic evolution the origin and development of feeling, and then to consider how far introspection confirms these results. I am well aware that I traverse moot points—what points in psychology are not moot?—and I trust that the position taken will receive thorough criticism. I should be very glad to have new facts adduced, whatever way they may bear. I have no theory to defend, but the results offered are simply the best interpretation I have as yet been able to attain.

Some of the material of this book has appeared during the last ten years in the pages of _Mind_, _Monist_, _Science_, _Philosophical Review_ and _Psychological Review_, but my contributions to these periodicals have in many cases been largely re-written.

HIRAM M. STANLEY.

LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, U S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
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ON THE INTROSPECTIVE STUDY OF FEELING 1

CHAPTER II

ON PRIMITIVE CONSCIOUSNESS 12

CHAPTER III

THEORIES OF PLEASURE-PAIN 35

CHAPTER IV

THE RELATION OF FEELING TO PLEASURE-PAIN 48

CHAPTER V

EARLY DIFFERENTIATION 61

CHAPTER VI

REPRESENTATION AND EMOTION 78

CHAPTER VII

FEAR AS PRIMITIVE EMOTION 93

CHAPTER VIII

THE DIFFERENTIATION OF FEAR 108

CHAPTER IX

DESPAIR 121

CHAPTER X

ANGER 127

CHAPTER XI

SURPRISE, DISAPPOINTMENT, EMOTION OF NOVELTY 163

CHAPTER XII

RETROSPECTIVE EMOTION 176

CHAPTER XIII

DESIRE 192

CHAPTER XIV

SOME REMARKS ON ATTENTION 225

CHAPTER XV

SELF FEELING 251

CHAPTER XVI

INDUCTION AND EMOTION 282

CHAPTER XVII

THE ÆSTHETIC PSYCHOSIS 295

CHAPTER XVIII

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LITERARY STYLE 310

CHAPTER XIX

ETHICAL EMOTION 332

CHAPTER XX

THE EXPRESSION OF FEELING 345

CHAPTER XXI