Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. THE SENSIBILITIES CLASSIFIED. § 16. If it is not easy to analyze the sensibilities into their original and simplest elements, it follows that it is Sensibilities not easy to classify them. Every synthesis of ele- not easily ments as similar supposes that these elements are Clm8slfle1' more or less clearly distinguishable. Every arrangement of these elements into groups that are higher or lower supposes a previous discrimination of the same as more or less general in their manifestation through phenomena. In other words, every correct and exhaustive classification follows a sharp and comprehensive analysis. As the experiences are subjective (i.e., as they pertain to those internal experiences which are consciously known), it might seem that they should be separated and constructed according to the differences or similarities which are experienced in and discerned by consciousness. Inasmuch, however, as these experiences are dependent upon their exciting objects, and these objects are sharply presented to the intellect, and inasmuch as we know by observation and conclude by analogy that different objects cause or occasion different experiences, we discriminate and unite them according to the objects which conditionate them. Both these elements, therefore (viz., the subjective and objective), control our classification, and determine its nomenclature. For the reasons given, however, the object or conditionating occasion is prominent in decidingthe classification and terminology of the sensibilities and the will. The following scheme is proposed : the animal or sensuous, includ- , ing the instinctive; the intellectual; the imaginative and scheme of aesthetic ; the personal, involving the love of power and classification, superiority, of achievement and pr... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.