The groundwork of psychology / by G.F. Stout.

  • George Frederick Stout
Date:
1903
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Credit: The groundwork of psychology / by G.F. Stout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a man that I begin to entertain a sentiment of friend- ship toward him. On the other hand, sentiments, when they have once come into being, are themselves indepen- dent sources of manifold feeling-attitudes and conations, varying with varying circumstances. They are complex mental dispositions, and may, as divers occasions arise, give birth to the whole gamut of the emotions. “ In the love of an object,” says Mr. Shand, “there is pleasure in presence and desire in absence, hope or despondency in anticipation, fear in the expectation of its loss, injury, or destruction, surprise or astonishment in its unexpected changes, anger when the course of our interest is opposed or frustrated, elation when we triumph over obstacles, satisfaction or disappointment in attaining our desire, regret in the loss, injury, or destruction of the object, joy in its restoration or improvement, and admiration for its superior quality or excellence. And this series of emo- tions occurs now in one order, now in another, . . . when the appropriate conditions are present.” 1 With inversion of conditions these same emotions “ re- peat themselves ... in the life history of every sentiment which we name dislike or hatred. There is pain instead of pleasure in the presence of the object, desire to be rid of it, to escape from its presence, except we can injure or lower its quality, . . . anger or fear when it is thrust upon us and persists, . . . regret or grief, not in its loss or in- jury, but in its presence and prosperous state.”2 Development of Sentiments in Complexity and Abstract- ness. — Sentiments may be conveniently though very roughly classified as concrete or abstract. The concrete have as their objects, individuals, or groups of individuals 1 Shand, “Character and the Emotions,” Mind, N.S., Vol. V. 2 Ibid.
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