Emotion

emotions, senses, sheriff and movements

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It would appear, then, that the stimulus of muscle is not necessarily or immediately a cause of pleasure; while the stimulus of the organic functions is so. Thus, a bracing cold quickens the activities, but is apt to cause a shock of pain, by temporarily checking the action of the akin; whenithe reactien arrives,: this check is converted into stimula Lion, and the mental state is altered in like manner. A bitter tonic must be supposed to act on the mine principle.

The emotions of the human mind may be classified under two heads: First—The pleasures, and pains, and modes of excitement growing out of the exer cise of the senses, the movements, and the appetites. See SENSES. The five senses, commonly recognized, are partly sources of pleasure and pain, in which case they yield emotion, and partly souqes of knowledge, by which they are related to the intellect. There are other sensibilities not included in the five senses, but ranking with them in those particulars—as the feelings of muscular exercise and repose, and the sensations of digestion, respiration, etc.

The second bead comprises the special emotions not arising immediately out of sen sation, although connected therewith.' These have be.eii variously classified. The fol

lowing is one mode of laying them out: 1. Feelings of liberty and restraint; 2. Wonder; 3. Terror; 4. Tender affections; 5. Emotions of self-complacency, love of approbation, etc. ; 6. Sentiment of power; 7. Irascibility; 8. Emotions of aetiou, including the inter est of pursuit or plot; 9. Emotions of intellect, love of knowledge, consistency, and Inconsistency; 10. Fine art emotions, or taste; 11. The moral sense.

On this subject, see MIller's Physiology, Movements d-ue to the Passions of the Mind; Bell's Anatomy of Expression; Stewart on the Active Power; Bain on the Emotions and the Witl, etc.

vel ponere in assisis et juratis—to write in a schedule or roll the names of such jurors as the sheriff returns to pass upon any trial. The judges of assize in England, before commencing their circuits, issue precepts to the sheriffs of the several counties, calling upon them to summon a sufficient number of jurors to serve upon the grand and petty juries. In compliance with this order, the sheriff pre pares lists, called the panels (q.v.} of the jury, and the persons named in the lists are thereupon summoned to attend at the assizes.

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