. Thinking, feeling, doing . may refer toan event desirable or undesirable, or perhaps relativelyindifferent. Hope and fear decide expectation ; hopeis the expectation of a desirable result, fear the ex- 234 Thinking, Feeling, Doing. Alarm andfright. Intellectualemotion. pectation of something undesirable. It is hardly cor-rect to call hope a future joy, or fear a future feelings can as little penetrate into the future as thesenses. Hope and fear are the expectation of future joyand future sorrow, but not joy and sorrow of them may be realized, just as expectationm
. Thinking, feeling, doing . may refer toan event desirable or undesirable, or perhaps relativelyindifferent. Hope and fear decide expectation ; hopeis the expectation of a desirable result, fear the ex- 234 Thinking, Feeling, Doing. Alarm andfright. Intellectualemotion. pectation of something undesirable. It is hardly cor-rect to call hope a future joy, or fear a future feelings can as little penetrate into the future as thesenses. Hope and fear are the expectation of future joyand future sorrow, but not joy and sorrow of them may be realized, just as expectationmay lead to satisfaction or disappointment. Fear of some immediate disagreeableness is calledalarm. Fright bears the same relation to alarm as does expectation to is the surprise oc-casioned by some sudden,terrifying occurrence. Itbecomes consternationwhen the occurrencephysically paralyzes theindividual experiencing it;and it is called terrorwhen he stands amazedbefore the event. Con-sternation is, therefore,. Fig. 177. Fright. the more subjective side of fright, and terror its objectiveside. If fear is continued, it becomes uneasiness. Theuneasy mind is always afraid ; every occurrence alarmsit. In other words, the emotion has become permanent,but at the same time somewhat less intensive. The emotions both of the present and future assumethe most varied forms, according as the idea important are those attaching to certain in-tellectual processes and originating in the peculiar feel-ings which accompany them. We can distinguish fourkinds of intellectual feelings : the logical, ethical, re-ligious, and aesthetic. Attaching themselves to very Emotio?i. 235 complicated connections of ideas, they almost invariablypass over into emotions, and in that form exert upon ourmental life an influence which far exceeds that of anyother state of feeling. Their analysis belongs, of course, Logicalto the special sciences from which they have their wil
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