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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III SUPERFICIAL AND PROFOUND FEELING ? THE TEST OF THE WORTH OF FEELING ? THE RELATION BETWEEN FEELING AND ACTION If feeling, then, is primary, does it follow that the office of religion is to make one feel good ? No, but to make one a person of good feeling. Feeling good is momentary; the quality of good feeling is permanent, the right heart of Hegel. We must distinguish between feeling and emotion. It is not always the most emotional men who have the deepest feeling; the man whose religious feeling is most easily stirred is not necessarily the most religious. Emotion is only one form of feeling, something stirred, changing, transient. Two judges may have each a painful case to decide. The appeals to the sympathy of each may be similar. One is greatly moved, and yields to the appeals; the other is firm. We say of the man who yields that he is a man of FEELING AND EMOTION 25 feeling; the other we may call cold-hearted. Yet the immovable judge may be a man of stronger and more profound feeling than the judge who yielded. His feeling is simply different in kind, the sense of responsibility and of the importance of maintaining the supremacy of the law, the thought of the results which may follow pardon and freedom, the sorrow likely to be caused by others more liable to crime as they see this man go free. The emotion of the moment may be real enough, there may not be in it any pretence or dissimulation; but one feeling is driven out by others. We speak in this way of superficial feelings, such as are called forth by one aspect of the environment and not by others. As the environment changes, a man is the creature now of one feeling, now of another. Deeper feeling may vary outwardly with the changes in the environment, but underneath is changeless. T...
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