Show 1 t r f The Unity of the the- Mind Mindl I J t III WHILE the intellectual feelings arise from the recognition of truth and actual relations from which judgments may be formed and out of which science is Js established the aesthetic feelings recognize recognize recognize nize beauty and ideal relations giving rise to taste and the arts are their product and arid while the former act with comparative certainty along given lines and nd are accompanied by a feeling of wonder the latter are free often bordering bordering bordering border border- ing on the capricious us and create a feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing of admiration As we have already noticed that one phase of the mind cannot cannot cannot can can- not exist alone so here aesthetic feeling feeling feeling feel feel- ing must ever be linked with the intellectual and we can feel no great degree degre of wonder without its being accompanied accompanied accompanied ac ac- companied by admiration Thus far we have considered only such feelings s as are aroused by the relation of objects to each other or of man to the various objects of the universe around him We will now glance at those feelings which are a awakened wakened by a recognition of the relation of man to his fellow We might call them t personal or moral feelings They are divided into three grades or kinds viz Social Moral and nd Religious The Social feelings may be regarded as consisting of two kinds those which we have for the the self and those which we have for others The chief feelings one has for himself are art pride or a sense of worth self-worth compared with some some other personalities and humility its opposite a feeling of demerit compared with others The chief feelings one has for others are sympathy ty at which consists in taking the feelings of others for our own on bringing into our own own experience ence the feelings of others and nd anti antipathy athy in which we feel disgust or indignation towards others Sympathy and antipathy antipathy antipathy an an- though so opposite to e each ch other are brought about in the same way Both result from the identification tion of ones one's self with another In the case of sympathy we accept for our own the feelings of others but in disgust or indignation we say we would not have nave such feelings for ours Sympathy is the most important of the social it it is the law of gravitation which binds men together It is to the emotional life what attention attention attention atten atten- tion is to the intellectual It It-is It is the sole sale I means by which others come within the range of o our our r lives By its nature it tends to widen and deepen to include within itself greater and greater circles until it may become universal It is through sympathy that moral feelings are developed as we recognize moral relations to o those only whom we feel to be identical in nature with our our- selves The moral feelings may be defined defined defined de de- fined as those which accompany acts that are right or in harmony with the best interests of the self and of other individuals The feeling of rightness Tightness is is' the essential chara characteristic of moral feelings feelings feelings feel feel- ings as truth is of the intellectual or beauty of the aesthetic feelings The moral feelings have another feature not found in any of the feelings thus far considered that of a sense of obligation We feel that we have havea a true or divine nature within us whose requirements are higher than those of our human nature and we are under a feeling of obligation to yield to these higher impulses The failure on our part to do so brings the negative feeling of remorse But this brings bring us into the realm of the religious feelings The new element in these feelings is the idea of God and our feeling of de dependence upon him and faith tin fait in him The religious feelings are the most complex and comprehensive of the feelings since they include all the others In their simplest type they include include include in in- clude little more than a feeling of awe and fear in the presence of a mysterious Power which governs nature and man but in their fully developed form they contain the highest forms of the other feelings as a well as some which are peculiar peculiar peculiar liar to themselves For example the highest conceptions of truth and beauty are embodied in religious sentiments while the moral sentiment finds in the religious ideals the most perfect em embodiment embodiment bodi- bodi ment of moral law and excellence t N The ideals which we seek in religion seem to extend into a future existence t i though many of them are capable of being approached in this life Our r efforts to bring ourselves into harmony with these ideals creates within us the highest and purest feelings which we weare weare are capable of experiencing Horace Cummings oJ |