ABSTRACT
A different set of facts is involved once the love and hate-relationships are regarded as causes of emotional states. It now becomes plain that the pursuance of these acts is itself the deepest of all sources of joy and sorrow, bliss and despair. Thus, even when love is 'unhappy' in the sense of being unrequited, the act itself is still accompanied by a feeling of great happiness— and equally so when the loved one occasions pain and sorrow. Love and hatred necessarily fasten upon the individual core in things, the core of value— if the author may be allowed the expressio—which can never be wholly resolved into values susceptible of judgement, or even of distinct apprehension in feeling. Self-love and self-hatred are therefore no less fundamental than love or hatred of others. Love is a movement pointing from a lower value to a higher one, though it is not necessary for both values to be given in the process.
