...general law be pointed out as giving a clue to this blending of physical effects with states of feeling ? A very considerable number of the facts may be brought...are connected with an increase, and states of pain icith an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions. Let us first revert to the known Agents,...

...brought GENERAL PRINCIPLE OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION. 283 under the following principle, namely, that state? of pleasure are connected with an increase, and states...abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions. Let us first revert to the known Agents, or stimulants, of pleasurable feeling, and compare them with...

...primitive manifestations of feeling. 4. The germs of volition. " States of pleasure are concomitant with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some or all of the vital functions. Our voluntary power, as appearing in mature life, is a bundle of acquisitions." " One of the foundations...

...for one large class of the facts, in the following principle : — States of pleasure are concomitant with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions. The proofs of this principle turn upon the consideration, first, of the Agents, and secondly, of the...

...knowledge.' — Preface to second edition of Lyrical Ballads. If we accept Professor Bain's doctrine, ' States of pleasure are connected with an increase, and states of pain with a diminution, of some or all of the vital functions,' it will followthat the healthy discharge of the...

...ness, there is a diffusive action or excitement over " the bodily members." In another place he adds, " A " very considerable number of the facts may be brought...abatement, of some, or all, of the " vital functions." But the above law of the diffusive action of feelings seems too general to throw much light on special...

...general law be pointed out as giving a clue to this blending of physical effects with states of feeling ? A very considerable number of the facts may be brought...abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions. Let us first revert to the known Agents, or stimulants, of pleas Table feeling, and compare them with...

...ness, there is a diffusive action or excitement over " the bodily members." In another place he adds, " A " very considerable number of the facts may be brought...of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the • ' The Senses and the Intellect,' 2nd edit. 1864, pp. 96 and 288. The preface to the first edition...

...evident when we call to mind the psychological principle* that " states of pleasure are concomitant with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions." But in this we find an intimate association though withal an independence of function between the brain...

...evident when we call to mind the psychological principle* that "states of pleasure are concomitant with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions." But in this we find an intimate association though withal an independence of function between the brain...