ABSTRACT
Shand 1 is one who has contributed largely to our knowledge and theories of emotional life. But, from the standpoint of the psychology of emotions qua emotions, his work has been synthetic rather than analytic. He has shown how emotions or emotional processes are united with ideas to form sentiments and how these latter become units of construction in character building. Not being primarily interested in discovering the origin of emotions he has not gone into this problem with the accuracy and imagination characteristic of the major part of his work. To me, at least, his use of the terms impulse, instinct and emotion is confusing, and I believe that in some passages he interchanges these terms. At any rate he offers no definite theory as to the ultimate nature of emotions, so his work will be dismissed—regretfully—with this mere mention.
