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 518 CHARLES MEECIER : TABLE VI. CL. I. Sub-cL I. Ord. II. Genera 4 and 5 : Grievous and Joyous Feelings. The feeling corre- sponds with the relation to the or- ganism of an event *! in the environ- ment which is cognised as fand distant in time. and impending. I and imminent. noxious -j and does not occur ' and has happened. beneficent L 'and impending. and imminent. Iand does not occur. and has happened. Anxiety. Dread. Alarm. Relief. f Anguish, Grief -< to ( Sorrow, Regret. Pleasurable Anticipation. Eagerness. Disappointment. ( Joy, Delight to ( Gratification. The foregoing Table explains itself, and does not I think require any comment. It completes the enumeration of those feelings of Class I. that correspond with an interac- tion initiated by the Environment. "We now pass to the con- sideration of the second of the two great groups of feelings which together constitute this Class. CLASS I., Sub-class II. Feelings that correspond with inter- actions primarily affecting the conservation of the organism, which are initiated by the Organism. It has already been pointed out that the sub-division of the various groups of feelings is not necessarily deter- mined by variations in the same circumstance in different groups. A little consideration will be enough to show that the qualities of interaction which determine the sub- divisions of this group of feelings must be very different from those in accordance with which the divisions of the previous group were made. In that case the quality of the action as noxious or beneficent was an element of prime importance in distinguishing between the sub- groups, but when an interaction is initiated by the organ- ism itself, it is obvious that no such distinction applies. There is but one way in which the organism can spon- taneously act upon the environment, and that is by means of muscular movements ; and although the part of the organism that takes the lead in the movement may be very different in different cases, and although the direction, force, extent and duration of the movement may all vary very widely, yet it is evident that these are but differences of degree, and that no satisfactory classification of interactions