This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...me that it is almost time for lunch. By this we see that feeling is a broad term, including, as Ward has remarked, relations to antecedent pleasant or unpleasant situations, and that therefore, unlike a sensation, it is not confined to the experience of the moment. These situations may either cause the feeling or be ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...me that it is almost time for lunch. By this we see that feeling is a broad term, including, as Ward has remarked, relations to antecedent pleasant or unpleasant situations, and that therefore, unlike a sensation, it is not confined to the experience of the moment. These situations may either cause the feeling or be the end in view toward the accomplishment of which feeling drives the experient. In connection with feeling it is well to remember that the direction of the stream varies each time our sensations change. One set of feelings dominates now, v while my eyes are fixed upon the paper, but the moment I look out of the window and see the clouds and trees quite a different set of feelings takes their place. There is ground for scepticism, however, in regard to the position taken by some psychologists that a change in feeling is always preceded by one in sensations; although it is not improbable that the shifting of my eyes from the table to a view through the window may be the result of discomfort due to slight fatigue which a shift in the attention relieves. Another important question to determine is the extent to which the ideas in consciousness giving direction to the volition are evolved from primitive feelings. This is a territory needing additional exploration, since much of the present confusion between the relations of consciousness and feeling is due to the difficulty of defining the two terms. We are reasonably certain only that feeling, like attention, is invariably present, but lacks definite characteristics which lend themselves readily to description. There is often, too, some difficulty in differentiating the elements of feeling from the more complex emotions, but we must not permit arbitrary distinctions to be an embarrassment to our stu...
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