ABSTRACT
It is not possible to discuss this whole matter without talking about emotions, because the central thing—our central material, as it were—are the emotions, and I think it is rather important to try to get some grasp of them. To start with, emotions are not the same as feelings, I think a lot of confusion arises because people talk about feelings and emotions synonymously. Emotions are unseen activities. Love, for instance, or hate—both or either of these are unseen. You may see all sorts of signs of them, but they are activities; but you will feel them if you walk into a room and someone who is exceedingly hateful and hostile is there—you will feel that, most likely. When you try to describe it——ay, someone says, "Why do you dislike that person so much?" and you say, "Oh, well, you know, when I arrived he didn't open the door and he turned the other way, or he scowled when I was talking to him." These are all attempts, but they are not actually quite the reason. It is because the emotion itself is like an unseen action that can be registered in the feelings.
