If we have a tendency toward cheerful, quiet, and optimistic moods, the psychologist names our temperament the _sanguine_; if we are tense, easily excited and irritable, with a tendency toward sullen or angry moods, the _choleric_; if we are given to frequent fits of the "blues," if we usually look on the dark side of things and have a tendency toward moods of discouragement and the "dumps," the _melancholic_; if hard to rouse, and given to indolent and indifferent moods, the _phlegmatic_. Whatever be our temperament, it is one of the most important factors in our character. 3. PERMANENT FEELING ATTITUDES, OR SENTIMENTS Besides the more or less transitory feeling states which we have called moods, there exists also a class of feeling attitudes, which contain more of the complex intellectual element, are withal of rather a higher nature, and much more permanent than our moods. We may call these our _sentiments_, or _attitudes_. Our sentiments comprise the somewhat constant level of feeling combined with cognition, which we name _sympathy_, _friendship_, _love_, _patriotism_, _religious faith_, _selfishness_, _pride_, _vanity, etc._ Like our dispositions, our sentiments are a growth of months and years. Unlike our dispositions, however, our sentiments are relatively independent of the physiological undertone, and depend more largely upon long-continued experience and intellectual elements as a basis. A sluggish liver might throw us into an irritable mood and, if the condition were long continued, might result in a surly disposition; but it would hardly permanently destroy one's patriotism and make him turn traitor to his country. One's feeling attitude on such matters is too deep seated to be modified by changing whims. HOW SENTIMENTS DEVELOP.--Sentiments have their beginning in concrete experiences in which feeling is a predominant element, and grow through the multiplication of these experiences much as the concept is developed through many percepts. There is a residual element left behind each separate experience in both cases. In the case of the concept the residual element is intellectual, and in the case of the sentiment it is a complex in which the feeling element is predominant.