The origin and nature of the emotions; miscellaneous papers . Fk;. is.—DvixG Tii_;ek at is u iihylofiiiictic (iglit or fHnljI. (Pliolo Ijy Tndonvooii and Vn- (IciwoikI, X. \.) no means of affording this advantage, it nevertheless shutoff the nervous current and saved the vital force which isordinarily consumed by these non-combatants in the per-formance of their functions. Wliatever may be the origin PHYLOGENETIC ASSOCIATION AND THE EMOTIONS 59 of fear, its phenomena are due to a stimulation of all theorgans and tissues that add to the efficiency of the physicalstruggle for self-pres
The origin and nature of the emotions; miscellaneous papers . Fk;. is.—DvixG Tii_;ek at is u iihylofiiiictic (iglit or fHnljI. (Pliolo Ijy Tndonvooii and Vn- (IciwoikI, X. \.) no means of affording this advantage, it nevertheless shutoff the nervous current and saved the vital force which isordinarily consumed by these non-combatants in the per-formance of their functions. Wliatever may be the origin PHYLOGENETIC ASSOCIATION AND THE EMOTIONS 59 of fear, its phenomena are due to a stimulation of all theorgans and tissues that add to the efficiency of the physicalstruggle for self-preservation and an inhibition of the func-. Fifi. 19.—The Broad Note the siinihirity of the expression to the facial of fear and of anger (Fiss. 12 and 21). (Wni. J. Brownlow, drawn from plioto.) tions of the leading organs that do not participate in thatstruggle—the non-combatants, so to speak. Fear arose from injurj^, and is one of the oldest and surelythe strongest emotion. By the slow process of vast empiri-cism nature has evolved the wonderful defensive motor me- 60 THE EMOTIONS chanisiu of many animals and of man. The stinmlation ofthis mechanism leachng t(.) a ])hysical struggle is action, andthe stiinulation of this meclianism witlKJut action is maj say, therefore, that fear is a pliijIofjetwUc Jlgld orJliglit (Fig. IS). On this hypothesis all the organs and parts
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