Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... pains of hearing can be referred to repose and irritation, prostration and vitality, sex, alimentation, society, etc. So of the pleasures and pains of sight. That the sensations of the five senses are not ultimate but only accessory is evident from the fact that the senses can be abrogated and yet life continue, except in the case of touch, which cannot be dissociated from muscularity. By means of sight, and to a less degree by means of hearing, intellectual pleasures and pains are developed to a far greater extent than by any other sensibilities. Some of the pleasures of light may be referred to the sense of sight, but others with those of heat are more correctly traced back to sensations of the general system and the nervous system. The pleasures and pains of society are joined with those of sexual gratification, but for reasons which will hereafter be given, it is thought advisable to afford them a department by themselves. CHAPTER LX. Primary Pleasures And Pains. 1. In the classification of pleasures and pains just presented it is not claimed that a complete list is given, or that the best grouping is made that can be made. The attention of psychologists has been comparatively little devoted to the emotional department of mind. While treatises upon intellect have been abundant, and while the process of cognition and the nature of cognitions have come within the purview of philosophy in all ages, the subject of feeling has been neglected. Few have attempted a thorough study or made an elaborate survey of the feelings. Accordingly science, so far as it relates to pleasures and pains, sensations and emotions, is lamentably defective. Moreover, this branch of mental science is an exceedingly difficult one. No phenomena of the mind..."
