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CHAPTER VI.

INSTANCES OF OTHR 2 SIMPLE EMOTIONS.

295. Emotions of cheerfulness, joy, and gladness.

296. Emotions of melancholy, sorrow, and grief

297. Emotions of surprise, astonishment, and wonder

298. Emotions of dissatisfaction, displeasure, and disgust

299 Emotions of diffidence, modesty, and shame

300. Emotions of regard, reverence, and adoration

CLASS II.

THE DESIRES.

CHAPTER I.

NATURE OF DESIRES.

301. Of the prevalence of desire in this department of the mind

302. The nature of desires known from consciousness

303. Of the place of desires in relation to other mental states

304 The desires characterized by comparative fixedness and pernia-

ib.

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323

324

306. The fulfilment of desires attended with enjoyment

307. Of variations or degrees in the strength of the desires

325

308. Tendency to excite movement an attribute of desire

309. Classification of this part of the sensibilities

ib

326

210. The principles, based upon desire, susceptible of a twofold op-

311. Of instincts in man as compared with those of inferior animals

312. Illustrations of the instincts of brute animals

313. Instances of instincts in the human mind

314. Further instances of instincts in men

815. Of the final cause or use of instincts

316 Of the general nature and characteristics of the appetites

317. The appetites necessary to our preservation, and not originally of

a selfish character

318. Of the prevalence and origin of appetites for intoxicating drugs 334

31. Of the twofold operation and the morality of the appetites

321. Principle of self-preservation, or the desire of continued existence 337

322. Of the twofold action of the principle of self-preservation

338

323. Of curiosity, or the desire of knowledge

ib.

324. Further illustrations of the principle of curiosity

339

325. Of the twofold operation and the morality of the principle of curi-

Section

328. Of the na ura desire of esteem

329. Of the desire of esteem as a rule of conduct

330. Of the desire of possession

331. Of the moral character of the possessory principie

332. Of perversions of the possessory desire

333. Of the desire of power

234. Of the moral character of the desire of power

335. Propensity of self-love, or the desire of happiness

336. Of selfishness as distinguished from self-love

337. Reference to the opinions of philosophical writers

338. The principle of sociality original in the human mind

339 Evidence of the existence of this principle of sociality

340 Other illustrations of the existence of this principle

Relation of the social principle to civil society

34.

CHAPTER V.

THE MALEVOLENT AFFECTIONS

342. Of the comparative rank of the affections

343. Of the complex nature of the affections

344. Of resentment or anger

345. Illustrations of instinctive resentment

346. Uses and moral character of instinctive resentment

347. Of voluntary in distinction from instinctive resentment

348. Tendency of anger to excess, and the natural checks to it

349. Other reasons for checking and subduing the angry passions

350. Modifications of resentment.

351. Modifications of resentment.

352. Modifications of resentment.

353. Modifications of resentment.

354 Nature of the passion of fear

Peevishness

Envy

Jealousy

Revenge

CHAPTER VI.

THE BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS.

355. Of the nature of love or benevolence in general

356. Love, in its various forms, characterized by a twofold action

357. Of the parental affection

358. Illustrations of the strength of the parental affection

359. Of the filial affection

360. The filial affection. original or implanted

361. Illustrations of the filial affection

362. Of the nature of the fraternal affection.

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380

381

382

383

384

363. On the utility of the domestic affections
364. Of the moral character of the domestic affections, and of the be-

nevolent affections generally

365. Of the moral character of the voluntary exercises of the benevo
lent affections

366. Of the connexion between benevolence and rectitude:
367 Of humanity, or the love of the human race.
368 Further proofs in support of the doctrine of an innate humanity,
or love for the human race

369. Proofs of a humane or philanthropic principle from the existence

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Sectior

CHAPTER VII.

THE BENEVOLENT AFFECTIONS.

LOVE TO THE SUPREME BEING.

376 Man created originally with the principle of love to God

377. That man was original.y created with a principle of love to God,

further shown from the Scriptures

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378 Further proof that man was thus created

379. Relation of the principle of supreme love to God to the other

principles of the pathematic sensibilities

380. The absence of this principle attended with an excessive and sin-

ful action of other principles

381. Further illustrations of the results of the absence of this principle 401

CHAPTER VIII.

HABITS OF THE SENSIBILITIES.

382. Meaning of the term habit

383. Of habits in connexion with the appetites

384. Of habits in connexion with the propensities

385. Of habits in connexion with the affections

385. Of the origin of secondary active principles

4ORAL OR CONSCIENTIOUS STATES OF THE MIND.-MORAL SENTIMENTS

389. Nature of the moral emotions of approval and disapproval

ib.

390. Of the place or position, mentally considered, of the emotions of

approval or disapproval

416

391 Changes in the moral emotions take place in accordance with

changes in the antecedent perceptions

ib.

392 Of objects of moral approval and disapproval

418

CHAPTER II.

RELATION OF REASONING TO THE MORAL NATURE

393. Of the doctrine which confounds reasoning and conscience

394 Of the close connexion between conscience and reasoning

395. Illustration of the preceding section

396. Of the training or education of the conscience

397. Of guilt, when a person acts conscientiously

398. Feelings of moral obligation distinct from feelings of moral appro-

val and disapproval

399. Proof of the existence of obligatory feelings from consciousness. ib.

400. Further proof from the conduct of men

425

401. Further proof from language and literature

402. Further proof from the necessity of these feelings

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403. Feelings of obligation simple and not susceptible of definition

404. They are susceptible of different degrees

405. Of their authoritative and enforcing nature

406 Feelings of obligation differ from those of mere approval and dis-

approval

107. Feelings of ob.igation have particular reference to the future

408. Feelings of obligation subsequent in time to the moral emotions

of approval and disapproval

409. Feelings of obligation differ from desires

410 Further considerations on this subject.

CHAPTER IV

UNIFORMITY OF ACTION IN THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.

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428

ib.

429

430

431

432

ib.

41. Of uniformity in the decisions of the moral nature and the princi

ple on which it is regulated

433

412. The nature of conscience, considered as a uniform principle of ac-

tion, requires that it should vary in its decisions with circum-

stances

434

413. Diversities in moral decisions dependent on differences in the

amount of knowledge

436

414. Of diversities in moral judgment in connexion with differences

in civil and political institutions

415 Of diversities and obliquities of moral judgment in connexion

with speculative opinions

416. Further illustrations of the influence of

ions

117. Influence of early associations on moral judgments

418. Of diversities in the moral judgment in connexion with an excited

state of the passions

CHAPTER V.

MORAL EDUCATION.

419. Suggestions on the importance of moral education

420. The mind early occupied either with good or bad principles

121. Of the time when moral instruction ought to commence

122. Of the discouragements attending a process of moral instruction

423. Of the importance, in a moral point of view, of adopting correct

speculative opinions

424. Of the knowledge of the Supreme Being, and of the study of re-

ligious truth generally

THE SENSIBILITIES, OR SENSITIVE NATURE.

SENSITIVE STATES OF THE MIND OR SENTIMENTS.

425. Introductory remarks on disordered sensitive action

426. Of what is meant by a disordered and alienated state of the sensi

bilities

427. Of the disordered and alienated action of the appetites

ib.

452

428. Disordered actior. of the principle of self-preservatio.

429. Disordered and alienated action of the possessory principle.

430. Instances of the second kind or form of disordered action of the

possessory principle

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457

131. Disordered action of imitativeness, or the principle of imitation 456

432. Disordered action of the principle of sociality

433. Further remarks on the disordered action of the social propensity 458

434. Of the disordered action of the desire of esteem

435 Disordered action of the desire of power

CHAPTER II.

SYMPATHETIC IMITATION.

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461

462

136. Of sympathetic imitation, and what is involved in it

137. Familiar instances of sympathetic imitation.

$38. Instances of sympathetic imitation at the poor-house of Harlem . 463

439. Other instances of this species of imitation

440. Of the states of mind denominated presentiments

441. Of sudden and strong impulses of the mind

442. Insanity of the affections or passions

444. Of intermissions of hypochondriasis, and of its remedies

445. Disordered action of the passion of fear

446. Perversions of the benevolent affections

CHAPTER IV.

465

467

468

469

471

473

ib.

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE MORAL SENSIBILITIES.

447. Nature of voluntary moral derangement.

448. Of accountability in connexion with this form of disordered

conscience

GENERAL NATURE OF THE WILL.

451. The will the third and last department of the mind

452. On the nature of the will

453. Of the nature of the acts of the will or volitions

484

454. Volition never exists without some object

455. It exists in reference to what we believe to be in our power

456. Volition relates to our own action and to whatever else may

457. Volitions involve a prospective element

458. Volitions may exist with various degrees of strength

CHAPTER II.

488

ib.

461. A presumption thus furnished for subjection of the will to law 492