CHAPTER IV. The Mutual Relations of Thought, Feeling, and Will in Evolution

THE MUTUAL RELATIONS OF THOUGHT, FEELING, AND WILL IN EVOLUTION

Hume on Reason and Passion--The constant connection of Thought with Feeling, and with Feeling as pleasure or pain--The question as to whether Thought or Feeling is primary--Application of answer to previous considerations on the diffusion of Consciousness in Nature--The relation of the concepts of the Pleasurable and Painful to the concept of "End"--Will as a constant accompaniment of Consciousness--Absurdities to which the division of Consciousness into distinct faculties leads--Law of the growth of functional tendency and of pleasure in function--The New as a disturber of equilibrium--The pleasure involved in the overcoming of obstacles--The equilibrium of function as Health--Connection of the pleasure of food-taking with Health--Criticism of Rolph's principle of the Insatiability of Life--Further criticism of Rolph on the Darwinian theory of Growth--The cooerdinate progress of physiological adaptation with the advancement of knowledge, and with the variation of Feeling and Will--The pleasure of the strongest motive as relative, not absolute--The character of the End in view--The pleasure of anticipation and the pleasure of the event--Criticism of Sidgwick on Hedonism--Criticism of Rolph's theory of Want as universal motive--Suicide--Rest--The diminution of pain with lapse of time as adaptation--Pleasure in pain as pleasure in function--The relation of Health to Happiness--The theory of the absolute Freedom of Feeling--The concepts of Cause and Effect as applied to the evolution of Thought, Feeling, and Will--Application of conclusions to the Teleological Argument 360-382