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is due to the part that objects have played or are playing in human history.

Our feelings become grouped in memory by repeated experience, and on each recurrence, restore by suggestive power a large class of emotions and incentives with which they have previously consorted. Like feelings are thus consolidated into varied, powerful classes, which work together on the mind, one feeling never arising alone, but uniformly having present for its aid some of its familiar companions. We shall not understand the force of certain passions without comprehending the multiplied echoes which they find in the soul. The transforming power of association is a cardinal fact in the feelings. Still association can create nothing; it simply combines and recombines in many ways the occasions of feeling, working up life into an experience of a definite order.

The animation of the feelings is also frequently dependent on the power of imagination. Our intellectual emotions arise in connection with sensible objects, and the vividness with which these are present to the mind will determine the degree of action in the accompanying sensibilities. The passionate and the poetic temperament are influenced by the images of the fancy. The clear and vivid pictures of the imagination arrest the attention, and arouse the passions, till they come baying along the trail of indulgence, like hounds in full scent.

The nature, character, and excitability of the emotions are diverse, but their activity at any one time depends, aside from direct influences, on these mental conditions. Arising out of intellectual action, they are especially affected by the circumstances and conditions of that action. While the pleasurable feelings are evolved, for the most part, in connection with successful activity, and the painful ones in connection with baffled effort, we are not to suppose that