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Credit: The emotions and the will / by Alexander Bain. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![3. 4. 5. It appears in the performance of actions that are but means . . Belief implies some cognisance of the order of nature Affirmations may be detached from actions or im- mediate ends . • • . . Belief is a source of happiness or misery 6. Relationship of Belief to Terror.—Doubt 7. Belief in coming evil .... 8. Joy and Depression as caused by belief 0. Sources of belief .... 10. The different sources are apt to be mixed together 11. I. Intuitive tendencies 12. Belief accompanies action and precedes experience ] 3. Fallacies grounded in instinctive beliefs 14. II. Expei-ience as a source of belief 15. III. Influence of Emotion 16. Opposition of Confidence and Fear 17. Emotions considered as operating to elevate or depress the mental tone .... 18. Belief in Testimony .... 19. Agency of Desire in producing conviction 20. Hope, Fear, Despondency 21. Religious Faith 22. Line of demarcation between belief and notions with- out belief .... 23. How can we be said to believe in things beyond the scope of possible action ? 24. Belief in our own sensations, present and past 525 520 527 529 lb. 532 533 534 535 537 539 540 541 544 ■546 547 548 549 ih 550 651 553 554 CONSCIOUSNESS. 1. Prevalent meanings of the term Consciousness 2. General tendency of the several meanings. First mental life, and its degrees. Second, the occupa- tion of the mind with itself. Third, Belief CONSCIOUSNESS AS FEELING. 1. The Passive Stales. 3. Pleasure and Pain. Characteristics of Neutral Excite- ment 655 561 663](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21292401_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
