ABSTRACT

Habitually contemplating the contrast between the cognitive and emotive faculties from a subjective point of view, the people conclude that it is a strongly marked contrast; and to say that there is really no line of demarcation between reason, and sentiment or passion, will, by most, be thought a contradiction of direct internal perceptions. The existence of feeling the people have seen to imply psychical states having some persistency-states that do not succeed one another instantaneously. Conversely, in the equally general truth that custom produces satiety that the keenness of any species of gratification diminishes in proportion as it becomes familiar, the people have the law similarly illustrated. Just the same relation which the love of property bears to the various gratifications it provides for, the love of unrestricted action bears to the gratifications derivable from property and from all other things.