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 CHAPTER V.

EMOTION AND SENTIMENT.

the last chapter we saw that impulses and desires are developed from the instinctive level of human behaviour, and enter into man's comprehensive aims, purposes, and ambitions. In the present chapter we shall consider, as a parallel evolution, the growth of man's emotions, which, instinctive in their origin, become developed and systematised into comprehensive sentiments which may govern his whole life. Emotions and sentiments are important elements in character for many reasons, but particularly because they bear with them an immediate sense of worth or value. They impart a glow and tone to existence, and without them character would be dull and cold and hard. It is of the utmost importance that the emotions and sentiments of the child should be developed in the right way and in the right direction. We must therefore ask, What are emotions and sentiments, and how, if at all, may they be educated?

§ 1. The General Characteristics of Emotion. In the text-books we find long lists of particular emotions—fear, anger, hope, suspense, jealousy, disgust, and so on. When these emotions are