principle upon which the of tlie appears to depend e the effects produced � will be to t� na j of each of mental a� tbe object at present in view is to investigate heir effects than their nature and origin the latter will he con no further is indispensable terms employed it will not he to inquire whether each be the result of � or from the combined influence of nor will there he occasion lo all the forms and varieties they as their general mode of action may be sufficiently illustrated by the t the others being either of e or in their operation and the mo i e� in a point of view are grief jo fear hope anger and love their influence is most clearly evinced and their excess productive of the most serious consequences � others of minor importance are anxiety which is merely an of fear and hope which ix or in the of hatred which i t a less � but more permanent form of anger jealousy which ia of love and anger and y which is a compound of anger and ambition ft besides these there arc some others such as pride and shame which may he distinct emotions but arc too limited in their or too transient in their effect to merit examination the appear to he more particularly ing of attention from observing the phenomena of the passions the conclusions lo be n are as follow mental n the heart but on the brain or organ of the this being the only part endowed with consciousness and capable of moral feelings i of other is secondary and results from their with the secondly it appears that moral feelings act upon the brain or organ of just as physical impressions do upon the organs of tense alter the circulation of the organs mo mental feelings affect the of the mental organ i it will be found that the changes first produced in the brain and thence communicated to owing to nervous and have also immediate in the system and are just as the influence of impressions is extended lo distant through sympathy the accuracy of the te conclusions will be shown in the separate ot each passion and the careful analysis of the phenomena it grief grief cannot he considered as a i ti i one remarkable mil i � ix t n� i � xi si i is the willing it he in sorrow with an or for every thi with its the calls of r � and even bodily pain arc disregarded in the slate of p aad abstraction it occasions now thi peculiarity in appears to influence of on the bodily frame which causes every li tion to as the symptoms declare the marks of bodily in the effects of grief a evinced by u e of and in the head with i f the face and of the eyes these are by deep si and interrupted in early life and mode a copious flow of tears and tt relief but in more advanced age and in excessive this fails and worse are apt to as acute pain in the head actual an attack or affections or su death he brain i the seat of the changes produced from visibly first in parts to organ while the the namely of tl face eyes with of fulness in the head declare reside in the system ami to consist in blood to these to account for their production one of two causes strict be assigned � either the blood is sent more than to the e parts or it meets usual when it arrives in them lu would not increase there now grief surely does not belong to the class of passions which arc to as a and the action of tlie heart oo the contrary circulation it i fact found to like other function and the pulse becomes slow and irregular still however tht l in the of the and parts to it and since is no increase in impulse with which it is sent to there must be a in the resistance which these oppose to the of the them for this is the only remaining cause thai can be alleged to account for the unusual point then to be l in wh they op k ance now than usual here the same reasoning which explains the determination blood occasioned bv local or the produced � the surface by sensible ofl also a k tion of the produced in the l rain by mental emotions the vessels in common with other organs owe of their moving power lo the of internal t ti i force ta � i in the cat t hich habitually i c� w� v m of i th� m to maintain at other a ly uniform degree of but when a m from or tht force of the impressions within their resistance is for a time or � yield to d intending determination of to lie part in pa the brain is the of this change mental adapted to act upon the organ of mind but other parts indirectly those to and upon ine with the laws of the like other parts which arc susceptible of owe faculty to the nerve that enter into their texture and derive c nerves from different sources some from l u and some from the system there sufficient reason to doubt that the receive their nerves from the same source as the an of which tliey form a part it is therefore tn be expected that these vessels of the in the affections of the parts to which they belong now the external surface and voluntary organs chiefly with or while those of the internal surface anti derive i from the il is easily conceived why the vessels of the surface more in mental emotions than those of the centre and why those of the face which arc 