We must conclude, then, that _the emotive pattern is a more complicated affair_ than the James-Lange theory represented it to be. All the component processes—perception, ideas, kinæsthesis, organic sensations, feeling—play their part in the total experience. We must conclude, too, that _the pattern varies, at least in the matter of emphasis, from one individual to another_; that the processes which ‘mean’ anger or fear to _A_ may differ from those which ‘mean’ the same emotion to _B_; the ideas, the kinæsthetic set, the organic sensations, may be more or less vivid, more or less extended, more or less stable features of the mental pattern. In fine, we agree with James that all emotions have an instinctive basis; and we agree with him, further, that the organic commotion, always present in some measure and degree, is characteristic of the experience; but _we cannot regard this organic commotion either as_ =constitutive=, _as the one thing necessary to emotion, or as_ =differential=, _the one thing that marks of any particular emotion from all the rest_. From an æsthetic point of view we may regret this conclusion; it is always more satisfactory to end up a discussion with some positive, clean-cut statement than to leave the subject with a ‘safe’ generalisation and a balanced judgement; but when we are seeking scientific truth, we may not outrun the facts we have; and when a science is in the making, the facts will not often round off prettily into a comprehensive theory. § 51. =The Expression of Emotion.=—If the classification of emotions is a pleasant exercise for authors of a logical turn, the outward show of emotion in =gesture= and =facial expression= has always been attractive to those who pondered the relations of mind and body. It may even be true that observation of these expressive movements lies at the very root of psychology; for in emotion a man is changed, transformed; he is unlike himself, out of himself, beside himself; and what could suggest, more plainly than such transformation, the activity of an indwelling mind? However that may be, there is a long list, stretching down the centuries, of works that deal with emotive expression. We must ourselves pass over everything that appeared before the time of Charles Darwin.