ABSTRACT
Emotion occurs most commonly confused with the meaning which it helps to convey. The nouns 'feeling' and 'emotion', the verb 'to feel', the adjective 'aesthetic', occur with a frequency of almost hypnotic effect in criticism and theory of art. The stuff of consciousness at any moment contains a host of elements contributed by sensations due to visceral and vascular changes. Such feelings owe their ridiculousness not to any defects as feelings, but to the absence of their really valuable, appropriate causes, apprehensions of imports. A mass of the sensation and imagery, of definite internal structure, is, on this assumption, what is referred to as a feeling or emotion. Bafflement, on the other hand, in apprehending an import, which is suspected but not grasped, may lead to distress. Finally, to see any difficult thing done with success arouses emotion.
