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pleasures than of physical pains. These last usually indicate a distinct fact, and are dependent on it for their duration. Strong physical pleasures involve a corresponding expenditure of physical force, and so exhaust their resources.

This fact is an enforcement of the law of temperance. The law holds still more uniformly in intellectual and spiritual emotions; in part, for the same reason, and also because excited feelings fall into conflict with ordinary duties, because, seeking immediate gratification in violent action, they are satisfied by that action, and because, as intense emotions, they have less sufficient occasions than more moderate ones. A violent temper, therefore, is wont to be a volatile one; while one slowly moved is correspondingly firm. Intense grief is followed by comparative apathy; exciting pleasures by depression of spirits, and vehement anger by relative indifference. The evenly happy life must be fed by the milder, more sustained sentiments; and the peace, the rest of the soul is found in the balance and correction of its feelings one by the other. The moral sentiments yield superior repose, not from their own nature alone, but also from the restraints and rule to which they subject all vexing and exorbitant emotions. Esthetic pleasures are among the most peaceful, since they are among the most harmonized and proportionate, of the sentiments. Even a spiritual feeling that is excessive does not escape the lassitude of reaction.

A second law is, Similar feelings sustain each other, dissimilar ones displace each other. Certain views and states unite easily, flow together and strengthen each other. Others stand in the opposite relation, and exist by mutual exclusion. Harmony is consistent with contrast. Indeed, this is one of the ways in which impressions are deepened and made complete. The intellectual view is made clear and decided by uniting like with like, and opposing like