 | Alexander Bain - Ethics - 1868 - 902 pages
...brought it into full play. 6. The connexion of feelings with physical states may be summed up, for one large class of the facts, in the following principle...described, and beginning with the muscular, we remark thai muscular exercise, when pleasurable, is the outpouring of exuberant energy. Muscular fatigue is... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 978 pages
...combined and harmonious movements. 3. The primitive manifestations of feeling. 4. The germs of volition. " States of pleasure are concomitant with an increase,...abatement, of some or all of the vital functions. Our voluntary power, as appearing in mature life, is a bundle of acquisitions." " One of the foundations... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Intellect - 1868 - 758 pages
...EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION. 283 under the following principle, namely, that state? of pleasure are connected with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions. Let us first revert to the known Agents, or stimulants, of pleasurable feeling, and compare them with... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Emotions - 1872 - 404 pages
...facts may be brought " under the following principle : namely, that states of " pleasure are connected with an increase, and states " of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the " vital functions." But the above law of the diffusive action of feelings seems too general to throw much light on special... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Animal behavior - 1873 - 412 pages
...facts may be brought " under the following principle : namely, that states of " pleasure are connected with an increase, and states " of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the • ' The Senses and the Intellect,' 2nd edit. 1864, pp. 96 and 288. The preface to the first edition... | |
 | John Thompson Dickson - 1874 - 526 pages
...cause of the depression being the more evident when we call to mind the psychological principle* that "states of pleasure are concomitant with an increase,...abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions." But in this we find an intimate association though withal an independence of function between the brain... | |
 | John Thompson Dickson - Insanity (Law) - 1874 - 546 pages
...cause of the depression being the more evident when we call to mind the psychological principle* that " states of pleasure are concomitant with an increase,...abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions." But in this we find an intimate association though withal an independence of function between the brain... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Mind and body - 1874 - 760 pages
...283 under the following principle, namely, that states of pleasure are connected with an inerease, and states of pain with an abatement , of some, or all, of the vital functions. Let us first revert to the known Agents, or stimulants, of pleasurable feeling, and compare them with... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Mind and body - 1874 - 232 pages
...may be termed the Law of Self-Conservation : — States of Pleasure are connected with an increase, states of Pain with an abatement, of some or all of the vital functions. This principle resumes such well known experiences as these : — The pleasures of healthy exercise,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Mind and body - 1874 - 760 pages
...the following principle, namely, that states of pleasure are connected with an increase, and stales of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions. Let us first revert to the known Agents, or stimulants, of pleasurable feeling, and compare them with... | |
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declares, that " a very considerable number of the facts may be brought under the following principle, namely, that states of pleasure are connected with an increase, and states of pain with an abatement, of some, or all, of the vital functions. 
