Produced by KD Weeks, MFR and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Footnotes have been moved to directly follow the paragraphs in which they are referenced. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY OF FEELING STUDIES IN THE EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY OF FEELING BY HIRAM M. STANLEY _Member of the American Psychological Association_ [Illustration: colophon] =London= SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO NEW YORK: MACMILLAN & CO 1895 BUTLER & TANNER, THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS, FROME, AND LONDON. PREFACE [Illustration] This work does not profess to be a treatise on the subject of feeling, but merely a series of studies, and rather tentative ones at that. I have attempted to deduce from the standpoint of biologic evolution the origin and development of feeling, and then to consider how far introspection confirms these results. I am well aware that I traverse moot points—what points in psychology are not moot?—and I trust that the position taken will receive thorough criticism. I should be very glad to have new facts adduced, whatever way they may bear. I have no theory to defend, but the results offered are simply the best interpretation I have as yet been able to attain. Some of the material of this book has appeared during the last ten years in the pages of _Mind_, _Monist_, _Science_, _Philosophical Review_ and _Psychological Review_, but my contributions to these periodicals have in many cases been largely re-written. HIRAM M. STANLEY. LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS, U S.A. TABLE OF CONTENTS [Illustration] CHAPTER I PAGE ON THE INTROSPECTIVE STUDY OF FEELING 1 CHAPTER II ON PRIMITIVE CONSCIOUSNESS 12