Emotions of men

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Preface

AN is a creature of the heart rather than of the head.

He is moved by impulses which are not rational but

emotional. The things he does and the things he seeks

have little or nothing to do with reason. Reason func-

tions, it is true, but not in determining ends or the

things he finds good, but rather in determining the best means of attaining these.

It is the presentation of these facts which constitutes the main theme of this book. It has been the aim of the writer to give a direct and informal account of man’s interests, and to show the measure in which his needs, wants, and cravings arise from an emotional and instinctive source. To the same source is traced life’s meaning and value, its color and intensity, its worth and significance.

There has been no attempt to list or catalogue the emotions as in the case of earlier works dealing with this subject. Such analysis and classification is less significant and less interesting to the student and general reader than the matter of relating emotions to life itself. To the individual who is interested in the influence of emotions upon thought and conduct, upon belief and ideational preference, and upon the whole fabric of our social, political, and religious life, this book should prove suggestive, and, we hope, valuable.

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Analysis of specific emotions is undertaken only in the case of those which hitherto have been largely neglected, and those with which the author is most familiar through personal research and investigation. This is true of the material presented in the chapters dealing with aesthetics, weeping, vicarious satisfaction, emotions in belief, and emotions in politics and national history.

Freperick H. Lunp.

Tempe University, September, 1930.

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