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Introduction - Intellect - Mental Science's Divisions - Intellect's Divisions and Perceptions - The Understanding - The Reason - The Dynamics of the Intellect - Physical Feelings - Intellectual Feelings - Spiritual Feelings - Dynamics of Feelings - The Will - The Nervous System - Nervous System of Man - Executive Volition - Primary Volition, or Choice - Dynamics of the Will and the Mind - The Relations of the Systems Here Offered to Prevalent Forms of Philosophy - Index - Contents -

the other, its gravitation downward, its cynical unbelief in goodness, its despair of strength.

The most beneficent of the intellectual feelings, as goodwill and compassion, are but feeble sentiments when disjoined from the moral nature. They are still pleasurable, still indices of action, impulses to a little desultory effort, but rarely have a deeper foundation than that of sympathy, which feebly transfers to us another's feelings; and play but a secondary part among those towering and dominant passions which drink up the life of the soul. They are remote reflections, faint types of those strong affections, those profound sympathies which give to the higher, the moral nature its compass and power, which enable it successfully to confront the appetites and passions, outweighing the good they offer with a greater good.

It is the feelings now indicated in this second great class resting primarily on self-interest, and especially liable to excess, that are termed passions. These emotions are frequently so strong that we suffer from them, that we seem to be their passive, afflicted subjects rather than their responsible sources.

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