The origin and nature of the emotions; miscellaneous papers . 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 leac
The origin and nature of the emotions; miscellaneous papers . 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. Fio. 20.—FiMSH OF Relay liAf the faoial exprpssion of tljc runners with those in Imrs. 12, 10, ilhjsfrate the faet that the same meehanisni is stiriiiilateilin emotion as in phvsieal aelion. (Iliotcj ]i\ Tliilerwood and ITiiler\vof)il, N. Y.; of the body are integrated, coimected, or correlated forthe self-preservation of the individual by the activity of hismotor mechanism fFigs. ]2, 11), and 20). We fear not in ourhearts alone, not in oiu brains alone, not in our visceraalone — fear influences e\ei-y organ and tissue; each organ PHYLOGENETTC ASSOCIATION AND THE EMOTIONS 61 or tissue is stimulated or inhibited according to its use orhindrance in the physical struggle for existence. By thusconcentrating all or most of the nerve force on the nerve-muscular mechanism for defense, a greater physical poweris developed. Hence it is that under the stimulus of fearanimals are able to perform preternatural feats of the same reason, the exhaustio
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