are less forcibly marked, and less hazardous to its welfare than those belonging to the passions, only the smaller portion of the volume will be embraced by this division. The Second Part will comprise a view of the moral feelings or passions in the relation which they also bear to our physical nature. Of these we shall, in the first place, offer a general definition, and such a classification of them as will be deemed necessary to our leading design. Next we shall point out their effects upon the different functions of the constitution; and then describe some of the most important of the individual passions belonging to the three great classes-pleasurable, painful, and mixed-into which it is proposed to separate them; thus taking occasion to examine more intimately their physical phenomena, and particular influence on the well-being of the human organism. And then we shall make some remarks upon the effects of the imagination; aiming to show how this faculty of the mind, when uncontrolled and disorderly, tends to weaken the nervous system, and injure the general health. The imagination here acting through the instrumentality of the passions morbidly excited by its licentious operation, such a consideration of it will not be inapposite to the design of the present treatise. As the work before us is not addressed to any particular class of readers, technical expressions will be carefully avoided, and its matter be rendered as plain and comprehensible as the nature of the subject will allow. And as truth, so far at least as the author can penetrate his own feelings, is its grand aim; all mystical speculations and ungrounded theories, whether of a metaphysical or moral nature, will be scrupulously excluded from its pages. Such, then, is a summary exposition of the plan and purpose of the present volume, and the author has only to hope that the principles advocated in it may not be wholly unprolific of good, and that it may subserve, in a measure at least, the great end for which it was prepared. CONTENTS. A judicious exercise of the Intellectual Faculties is promotive both of Health and Happiness.-Human Nature must advance through the Development of Intellect.-Evils resulting from Mental Inactivity.— Intellectual Pursuits do not necessarily abbreviate Life.-Examples Evil consequences that may be apprehended from overtasking the Intel- lectual Powers.-Rules proper to be observed by Studious Men for the security of their Health.-The ability to sustain Intellectual Labors varies in different Individuals, and consequently the propor- Mental Labors are less fatiguing and injurious when diversified than when confined to some one particular subject.-A temperate exercise of the Intellect, united with Habitual Muscular Activity, is most fa- vorable to the general Health of the System and to Longevity.-In- tellectual Faculties variously affected by different conditions of the Intellectual Operations, concluded.-A few General Suggestions in re- gard to the Education of Children.-Severe Intellectual Exertions States of these Functions serve in like manner to awaken the differ- ent Passions.—Moral Infirmities of Men of Genius often due to those of a Physical Character.-Action and Reaction between Mind and Wherein Real and Imaginary Afflictions differ from each other.-Inci- dental remarks naturally suggested by the Mutual Relations and De- The Passions considered more particularly.—The Pleasurable Passions, with their effects on the Physical Functions, summarily noticed, 123 Anger, concluded.—Physical Effects of its Chronic Action.-It may be excited by Morbid States of the Bodily Organs, and thus be strictly Fear.-Its Definition.-Being essential to Self-Preservation, it belongs Instinctively to all Animals.-Difference between Moral and Physical Courage. Certain Conditions of our Bodily Organs and Functions beget a Morbid Timidity of Character.-Certain Instincts conquer Fear.-Delicate and Nervous Constitutions are sometimes endowed |