This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. ENERGY. Energy, the third quality of style, expresses the force and vigor of composition, --the power with which it reaches its end. It is a leading quality of discourse, since this aims at an immediate and thorough effect. It springs chiefly from the will and desires, and is measured by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. ENERGY. Energy, the third quality of style, expresses the force and vigor of composition, --the power with which it reaches its end. It is a leading quality of discourse, since this aims at an immediate and thorough effect. It springs chiefly from the will and desires, and is measured by their strength. The desires so direct and seal the will, that the tenacity of the latter must be determined by the firmness of the former. We speak of the desires: this language ought not, however, to imply any inherent distinction in them. They differ from each other in the objects which excite them, rather than in the feeling excited. From the very constitution of the mind, it cannot be indifferent toward its own good, its own enjoyment. It belongs to the very nature of happiness to impart desire, and this desire logically extends itself to all objects and actions which are found to be the conditions of pleasure. We would not say that the desire comes first, and that the enjoyment arises from its gratification, but that certain appetites and powers furnish us pleasure, and that this pleasure inspires desire for the objects with which it is connected. The enjoyments of the mind, like those of the body, arise independently of the desires, and enkindle them. But desire, though exclusively directed toward things capable of affording some independent pleasure, is not always proportioned to the value thus attaching to them. It may, as in avarice, acquire a constitutional hold on the mind, aside from any good to be realized in possession. As the motive power of life is furnished by the appetites, passions, and affections, the energy with which the mind is driven in any direction must depend on their vigor. The will goes forth to determine and...
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