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Welcome to Centre for Elites! This video explores the complex nature of feelings and emotions, highlighting how they form a significant part of our mental activities compared to intellect. We delve into the essence of human nature through the lens of psychology, contrasting mental processes with reason. Understand the depth of human experience and how these emotional states color our perception and behavior.
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Welcome to Centre for Elites! This video explores the nature of feelings and emotions, contrasting them with intellect and reason to highlight their central role in mental activity and human nature. We discuss how these deep-seated emotional states influence cognitive processes and shape the human experience. Understanding the interplay between our mental health and these fundamental aspects of our being offers profound insights into psychology and philosophy.
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the feelings. In thinking of the mind
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and its activities, we are accustomed to
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the general idea that the mental
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processes are chiefly those of
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intellect, reason, thought.
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But as a fact, the greater part of the
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mental activities are those concerned
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with feeling and emotion.
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The intellect is the youngest child of
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the mind, and while making its presence
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strenuously known in the manner of all
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youngest children, so that one is
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perhaps justified in regarding it as the
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whole thing in the family. Nevertheless,
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it plays but a comparatively small part
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in the general work of the mental
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family.
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The activities of the feeling side of
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life greatly outnumber those of the
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thinking side are far stronger in their
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influence and effect as a rule and in
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fact so color the intellectual processes
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unconsciously so as to constitute their
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distinctive quality except in the case
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of a very few advanced thinkers.
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But there is a difference between
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feeling and emotion as the terms are
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employed in psychology.
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The former is the simple phase, the
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latter the complex.
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Generally speaking, the resemblance or
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difference is akin to that existing
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between sensation and perception. As
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explained in a previous chapter,
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beginning with the simple, in order
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later on to reach the complex, we shall
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now consider that which is known as
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simple feeling.
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The term feeling as used in this
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connection in psychology has been
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defined as the simple agreeable or
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disagreeable side of any mental state.
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These agreeable or disagreeable sides of
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mental states are quite distinct from
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the act of knowing which accompanies
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them.
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One may perceive and thus know that
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another is speaking to him and be fully
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aware of the words being used and of
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their meaning.
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ordinarily and so far as pure thought
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processes are concerned. This would
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complete the mental state.
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But we must reckon on the feeling side
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as well as on the thinking side of the
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mental state.
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Accordingly, we find that the knowledge
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of the words of the other person and the
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meaning thereof results in a mental
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state agreeable or disagreeable.
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In the same way, the reading of the
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words of a book, the hearing of a song,
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or a sight or scene perceived, may
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result in a more or less strong feeling,
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agreeable or disagreeable.
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This sense of agreeable or disagreeable
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consciousness is the essential
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characteristic of what we call feeling.
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It is very difficult to explain feeling
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except in its own terms.
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We know very well what we mean or what
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another means when it is said that we or
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he feels sad or has a joyous feeling or
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a feeling of interest.
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And yet we shall find it very hard to
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explain the mental state except in terms
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of feeling itself.
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Our knowledge depends entirely upon our
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previous experience of the feeling. As
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an authority says, if we have never felt
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pleasure, pain, fear, or sorrow, a cordo
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volume cannot make us understand what
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such a mental state is.
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Every mental state is not distinguished
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by strong feeling. There are certain
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mental states which are concerned
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chiefly with intellectual effort and in
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which all trace of feeling seems to be
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absent, unless, as some have claimed,
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the feeling of interest or the lack of
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same is a faint form of the feeling of
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pleasure or pain.
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Habit may dull the feeling of a mental
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state until it is apparently neutral,
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but there is generally a faint feeling
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of like or dislike still left.
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The elementary forms of feeling are
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closely allied with those of simple
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sensation.
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But experiments have revealed that there
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is a distinction in consciousness.
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It has been discovered that one is often
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conscious of the touch of a heated
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object before he is of the feeling or
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pain resulting from it.
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Psychologists have pointed out another
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distinction. Namely, when we experience
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a sensation, we are accustomed to refer
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it to the outside thing which is the
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object of it as when we touch the heated
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object.
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But when we experience a feeling, we
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instinctively refer it to ourselves as
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when the heated object gives us pain.
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As an authority has said, my feelings
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belong to me, but my sensations seem to
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belong to the object which caused them.
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Another proof of the difference and
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distinction between sensation and
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feeling is the fact that the same
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sensation will produce different
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feelings in different persons
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experiencing the former even at the same
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time.
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For instance, the same site will cause
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one person to feel elated and the other
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depressed.
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The same words will produce a feeling of
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joy in one and a feeling of sorrow in
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another.
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The same sensation will produce
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different feelings in the same person at
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different times.
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An authority well says, "You drop your
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purse and you see it lying on the ground
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as you stoop to pick it up with no
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feeling either of pleasure or pain.
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But if you see it after you have lost it
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and have hunted for it a long time in
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vain, you have a pronounced feeling of
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pleasure.
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There is a vast range of degree and kind
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in feeling."
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Gordy says, "All forms of pleasure and
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pain are called feelings.
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Between the pleasure which comes from
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eating a peach and that which results
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from solving a difficult problem of
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learning good news of a friend or
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thinking of the progress of
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civilization. Between the pain that
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results from a cut in the hand and that
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which results from the failure of a long
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cherished plan or the death of a friend
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there is a long distance
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but the one group are all pleasures the
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other all pains. And whatever the source
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of the pleasure or pain it is alike
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feeling.
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There are many different kinds of
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feelings.
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Some arise from sensations of physical
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comfort or discomfort. Some from purely
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physiological conditions. Others from
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the satisfaction of accustomed tastes or
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the dissatisfaction arising from the
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stimulation of unaccustomed tastes.
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Others from the presence or absence of
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comfort. Others from the presence or
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absence of things or persons for whom we
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have an affection or liking.
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Overindulgence often transforms the
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feeling of pleasure into that of pain.
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And likewise, habit and practice may
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cause us to experience a pleasurable
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feeling from that which formerly
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inspired feeling of an opposite kind.
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Feelings also differ in degree. That is
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to say, some things cause us to
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experience pleasurable feelings of a
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greater intensity than do others, and
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some cause us to experience painful
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feelings of a greater intensity than do
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others.
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These degrees of intensity depend more
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or less upon the habit or experience of
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the individual.
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As a general rule, feeling may be
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classified into one, those arising from
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physical sensations and two, those
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arising from ideas.
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The feelings depending upon physical
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sensations arise either from inherited
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tendencies and inclinations or from
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acquired habits and experience.
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It is an axiom of the evolutionary
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school that any physical activity that
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has been a habit of the race long
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continued becomes an instinctive
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pleasure-giving activity in the
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individual.
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For instance, the race for many
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generations was compelled to hunt, fish,
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travel, swim, etc. in order to maintain
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existence.
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The result is that we the descendants
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are apt to find pleasure in the same
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activities as sport, games, exercise
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etc. Many of our tendencies and feelings
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are inherited in this way. To these we
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have added many acquired habits of
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physical activity which follow the same
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rule that is that habit and practice
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impart more or less pleasurable feeling.
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We find more pleasure in doing those
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things which we can do easily or quite
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well than in the opposite kind of
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things.
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The feelings depending upon ideas may
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also arise from inheritance.
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Many of our mental tendencies and
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inclinations have come down to us from
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the past.
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There are certain feelings that are born
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in one without a doubt. That is to say,
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there is a great capacity for such
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feelings which will be