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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... transfer to carry the full sense of the importance of the principles and the richness of its applications in the several levels of evolution. The same comment may be made in regard to the succeeding topic which illustrates the principles governing the higher phases of psychic regulation, where the sensibilities, emotions, and reasoned actions combine into a system of sentiments set and operative in an institutional, social milieu. For the moment the emphasis is upon the mode of reaching the sentimental stages of psychic regulation. Note 12, page 56. With a somewhat more limited yet genuine reference Thorndike says: "What might appear to be perverse luxuries in the business of keeping one's self and one's offspring alive, turn out to be, in connection with certain other tendencies, means of exterminating all enemies, securing food in regular abundance, and remaking the environment to suit man's almost indefinite multiplication." NOTES TO CHAPTER II Note 1, page 58. The primary meaning of sensibility refers to the capacity to respond (through the sense-feeling aroused) to stimulation, and to respond differently to situations presenting variable stimuli. More simply, it refers to the capacity to be differently affected in the presence of cries or laughter, of smiles or tears, of blows or caresses, of bitter or of sweet morsels, of fragrant or of rank odors, of red and of blue, and so on through the gamut of natural sense-stimuli and their occasions. That the sensibilities in their primitive exercise are part of original nature may be assumed, though how far the response is linked to specific types of stimuli is uncertain. Presumably certain ranges of stimuli by their nature are disposed to please or to irritate, or to contribute slightly in the direction of s...