The more frequently sensations are recalled in the same The will has no direct control over the memory The mind expects like consequents to follow like Pleasure or pain of sensation, and also of discriminating, The two elements of sensations take different directions The abating of the pleasure or pain of sensations, as of dis- The unlimited power of the mind to discern differences Important division: emotions, and intellectual operations Classing sensations, by organs of sense, by pleasure or pain Drawing inferences and reasoning Page Aided by sense of sight Knowledge of distances Notion of space necessarily connected with that of matter NOTION OF SELF, OR PERSONAL IDENTITY. Two views; personal identity as distinguished from other beings, and personal identity with regard to continued Identification of myself as distinguished from others Definition No will without voluntary motion of the body The will does not acquire direct power over the mind by The most despotic monarch deprived of will if deprived of voluntary motion of the body Willing operations through the medium of others explained What is it that moves the will? Question answered Is the will necessarily swayed by motives? Question Moral character determined, not by acts of the will, but ORIGIN OF OUR NOTION OF CAUSE AND EFFECT. No notion of cause and effect from sequence of sensations Nor from constant succession of events among external Derived from the mind's consciousness of its being the cause of the movements of the body 83 Laws of suggestion extended by perception Principal laws, resemblance, contrariety, contiguity of time or place, comprehension, cause and effect Different minds differently affected by laws of suggestion Objects recalled by suggestion, recalled with the original pain or pleasure connected with the perception of them The more frequently objects recalled in any order, the more promptly and certainly they recur in that order, illustrated by acquiring language Indirect power of the will over suggestions, acquired by its 95 The remembrance of objects by suggestion implies the Importance of this discrimination The pain or pleasure attending the perception of external objects subsides by repetition, while the power of Emotions now directed to external objects, desire, aversion, hope, fear, disappointment, sadness, agreeable dis- 101, 102 New emotions caused by the power of the mind over the body, patience, fortitude, resolution, determination, or impatience, timidity, cowardice. From the notion of cause and effect, self-gratulation, regret, THE INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE ON EMOTIONS CONNECTED Not treating the influence of language historically. § 1. THE CLASSIFICATION OF EXTERNAL MATERIAL OBJECTS. Classed by observed resemblances . §2.--INDUCTION, AS EXERCISED ON EXTERNAL MATERIAL OBJECTS. |