The origin and nature of the emotions; miscellaneous papers . Fig. 24.—Tiiio Tlic rriiisciiUir .afl i vat ion iiiid fncics of I lie fa( licr slrikiiinly rale I lie pliysirai rX| of j)ain. PAIN, LAUGHTER, AND CRYING 85 hj^pothesis that can be tested experimentally is that pain isa phenomenon resulting from the rapid discharge of energyin the brain-cells. If this be true, then if every pain receptorof the body were equally stimulated in such a manner that. Fig. 25.—Fear and Agony. Amid this dread exuberance ot woe ran naked .spirits wingd with horrid fear.—
The origin and nature of the emotions; miscellaneous papers . Fig. 24.—Tiiio Tlic rriiisciiUir .afl i vat ion iiiid fncics of I lie fa( licr slrikiiinly rale I lie pliysirai rX| of j)ain. PAIN, LAUGHTER, AND CRYING 85 hj^pothesis that can be tested experimentally is that pain isa phenomenon resulting from the rapid discharge of energyin the brain-cells. If this be true, then if every pain receptorof the body were equally stimulated in such a manner that. Fig. 25.—Fear and Agony. Amid this dread exuberance ot woe ran naked .spirits wingd with horrid fear.—Dantes Inferno, Canto XXIV, hues 89, 90. all the stimuli reached the brain-cells simultaneously, thecells would find themselves in equilibrium and no motor actwould be performed. But if all the pain receptors of thebody but one were equally stimulated, and this one stimu- Ob THE EMOTIONS lated harder than the rest, then the hitter vvoiihi gain pos-session of the final eonnnon path, the sensation of painwoukl be felt, antl a nniseular contraction would r(>sult. It is well known that when a greater pain is thrown intocompetition with a lesser one, the lesser is corn])let(>ly sub-merged. In this manner the school-boy initiates the noviceinto the mystery of the painless plucking of hair. Thesimultaneous, but severe application of the boot to theblindfolded victim takes complete and exclusive possessionof the final common j)ath and the hair is painlessly pluckedthrough the triump
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