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tion to supply a framework, to create their own ob-
jects of love or hate, rather than to arise from the
representation of such objects, is what is commonly
meant by the phrases a good or a bad heart.

§ 27. 1. Opposed to anger and revenge are two
degrees of gratitude; the first might perhaps be
called a burst of gratitude for any particular kind-
ness; the second prolonged and indurated grati-
tude. The object of both of them is the representa-
tion of acts prompted by goodwill, love, or friendship.
Wherever it is said that acts are the object of emo-
tions, it will always be found that the feeling or
emotion prompting, and manifesting itself in, those
acts, and of which they are the representational
framework, is the real object of the emotion in ques-
tion. An act is always capable of analysis into its
elements of feeling and form, of emotion and cogni-
tion; and the act, as it is called, is but the objective
representation of these cognitions and emotions as
mental qualities, or, in other terms, the embodiment
of them. In every case it is an emotion that we
hate or love; when we say we hate or love a man,
or an action, it is the emotion that makes the man
or his action what they are; it is the emotion, which
we represent the man as feeling, that gives him his
character in our eyes. We represent him as a per-
son at all only by representing him as self-conscious,
and the mode of his self-consciousness is what we
either love or hate.

§ 27.
Emotions
subordinate to
the two fore-
going groups.

2. When good or ill fortune happens to persons,
whom we love or whom we hate, we feel the deri-
vative emotions of pity or compassion when those
we love are injured or unfortunate, of joy and con-
gratulation for them when they are fortunate or

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Theory of Practice: An Ethical Enquiry in Two Books. Volume: 1. Contributors: Shadworth H. Hodgson - author. Publisher: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1870. Page Number: 201.
    
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