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 A CLASSIFICATION OF FEELINGS, II. 529 attend success and failure in single acts no terms are more appropriate than the feelings of Success and of Failure, but for the feelings which correspond with the relation between these two phases of conduct, distinct names are in common use according well with the distinct character of the feelings. TABLE X. CLASS I. Sub-cl. II. : Self-conservative Emotions, Organismally-initiated. Genus 7 : Feelings corresponding with the relation of Success to Failure. Successes are cognised as pre- ( iQ important matters. Self-Eeliance. dominating over Failures i n sma ll matters. Complacency. Failures are cognised as predo- ( decidedly. Depression, minating over Successes greatly. Despondency. AVith this genus is completed the examination of the feel- ings of Class I., and before passing on to the feelings of Class II., which correspond with interactions that affect the perpetuation of the race, it will be well to consider a few objections that may be made to the foregoing portion of the classification, and to indicate some cross-relationships that have been left unnoticed. To the feeling of Despond- ency has been assigned a place in the last genus of the second sub-class, while the feeling of Despair is placed in the first genus of the first sub-class ; two feelings that are very closely akin are thus separated by the widest interval al- lowed by the limits of the Class. Feelings so similar as those of Failure and Defeat are as widely separated, and feelings of Gratification and Satisfaction, Hatred and Dis- like, Fear and Alarm are placed in different genera. The classification may therefore seem open to the very objection that I have made to the classifications of my predecessors. To such criticisms the reply is threefold, and when all the circumstances are considered the justification will, I trust, be found complete. In the first place, the names given to the feelings are necessarily more restricted in their meanings when used here than when employed in common discourse ; and in restricting their meaning a certain neutral territory lying between two adjacent feelings, and usually ascribed indifferently to the one or the other, has been separated from both; and in this way the severance between two allied feelings has necessarily been made more complete by the clearer limitation of each of them. Then again it is to be remembered that this classification is based on the corre-