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16. It may be interesting to produce some endorsements of the claims made by the Pelman Institute in this lesson by professors and teachers of psychology.

EMOTION GOVERNS THE WORLD.

“Whatever feeling is, it is of vast importance in our mental life. Thoughtful people get too much in the habit of thinking that intellect is everything. Yet the world is governed not by thought, but by emotion.”

F. Ryland, M.A., in

The Story of Thought and Feeling, p. 147.

FEELING BEFORE INTELLECT.

“Daily experience shows that the affections, the propensities, the passions are the great springs of human life; and that, so far from resulting from intelligence, their spontaneous and independent impulse is indispensable to the first awakening and continuous development of the various faculties.”Auguste Comte, in

Positive Philosophy, Vol. I., p. 463.

THE NEED OF EMULATION.

“The Emulative impulse tends to assert itself in an ever widening sphere of social life, encroaching more and more upon the sphere of combative impulse and supplanting it more and more as a prime mover of both individuals and societies.”Prof. McDougall, in

Social Psychology, p. 294.

DESIRE—WITH EXCLUSIVENESS.

“In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only, you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”Prof. Wm. James, in

Talks on Psychology, p. 137.

IMPULSE AS A BASIC POWER.

“All intellectual and voluntary processes are elicited by the system of some impulse, emotion, or sentiment, and sub-ordinated to its end.”A. F. Shand, M.A., in

The Foundations of Character, p. 67.

THE FEELINGS ARE PRIMARY.

“Mind is not wholly, or even mainly, Intelligence . . . it consists largely, and in one sense entirely, of Feelings.” Herbert Spencer, in

Principles of Psychology, Vol. I, p. 192.

WHAT IS FUNDAMENTAL?

“What is fundamental in the character is the instincts, tendencies, impulses, desires and feelings, all these and nothing else.”

Th. Ribot, in

Psychology of the Emotions, p. 390.

HOW MEN ARE GOVERNED.

“Men are not governed by their abstract principles but by their passions and emotions.”

Leslie Stephen, in

The English Utilitarians, Vol. II., p. 329.

FEELING AND THE SELF.

“Feeling is subjective life par excellence.”

Prof Sully, in

The Human Mind, Vol. II., p. 2.

These testimonies are all the more convincing when they are realised in active life. Think sceptically, doubtfully, cynically, hopelessly—and you do nothing; think positively, hopefully, generously—and you work towards your destiny. We may therefore say, “What I think, that I am.“ Thoughts decide our career.