The science of the emotions / by Bhagaván Dás.

  • Das, Bhagavan, 1869-1958.
Date:
1900
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Credit: The science of the emotions / by Bhagaván Dás. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ pensive and melancholy,” of glances “ fascina- ting” or “weird” or “serpent-like,” of looks “suggestive” or “speaking whole volumes,” is exactly this, that they are “ suggestive ” of indefinite possibilities, and “ speak whole volumes”—but when required in actual daily domestic life to throw all these “ suggestions ” and “ speeches ” into actualities, they naturally often fail woefully and false expectations are properly disappointed. A single copper has often sufficed to build a castle, but only in the air ; it will not buy one meal in common life. As to what the significance is, from the point of view of evolution, of the endeavour to with- draw the Emotions from the senses, the endeavour to live in the Emotions rather than the senses, when such an endeavour is exten- sively observable in a large class of humanity, e.g. in an excess of imagination and literature over action—that significance seems to be that that class is seeking Jieiv senses in which to vent its Emotions, the present ones having grown stale ; that biological changes in the physical constitution of the race are pending. Notice in the current literature at the end of the nineteenth century how the sex problem is being threshed out from all points of view, and how its sen.suous and actual side is being thrown more and more into the background by the