Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION
- CHAP. II GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION—continued
- CHAP. III GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION—concluded
- CHAP. IV MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS
- CHAP. V SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS OF ANIMALS
- CHAP. VI SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS OF MAN: SUFFERING AND WEEPING
- CHAP. VII LOW SPIRITS, ANXIETY, GRIEF, DEJECTION, DESPAIR
- CHAP. VIII JOY, HIGH SPIRITS, LOVE, TENDER FEELINGS, DEVOTION
- CHAP. IX REFLECTION—MEDITATION—ILL-TEMPER—SULKINESS—DETERMINATION
- CHAP. X HATRED AND ANGER
- CHAP. XI DISDAIN — CONTEMPT — DISGUST — GUILT — PRIDE, ETC. — HELPLESSNESS — PATIENCE — AFFIRMATION AND NEGATION
- CHAP. XII SURPRISE—ASTONISHMENT—FEAR—HORROR
- CHAP. XIII SELF-ATTENTION—SHAME—SHYNESS—MODESTY: BLUSHING
- CHAP. XIV CONCLUDING REMARKS AND SUMMARY
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAP. X - HATRED AND ANGER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP. I GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION
- CHAP. II GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION—continued
- CHAP. III GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF EXPRESSION—concluded
- CHAP. IV MEANS OF EXPRESSION IN ANIMALS
- CHAP. V SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS OF ANIMALS
- CHAP. VI SPECIAL EXPRESSIONS OF MAN: SUFFERING AND WEEPING
- CHAP. VII LOW SPIRITS, ANXIETY, GRIEF, DEJECTION, DESPAIR
- CHAP. VIII JOY, HIGH SPIRITS, LOVE, TENDER FEELINGS, DEVOTION
- CHAP. IX REFLECTION—MEDITATION—ILL-TEMPER—SULKINESS—DETERMINATION
- CHAP. X HATRED AND ANGER
- CHAP. XI DISDAIN — CONTEMPT — DISGUST — GUILT — PRIDE, ETC. — HELPLESSNESS — PATIENCE — AFFIRMATION AND NEGATION
- CHAP. XII SURPRISE—ASTONISHMENT—FEAR—HORROR
- CHAP. XIII SELF-ATTENTION—SHAME—SHYNESS—MODESTY: BLUSHING
- CHAP. XIV CONCLUDING REMARKS AND SUMMARY
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
If we have suffered or expect to suffer some wilful injury from a man, or if he is in any way offensive to us, we dislike him; and dislike easily rises into hatred. Such feelings, if experienced in a moderate degree, are not clearly expressed by any movement of the body or features, excepting perhaps by a certain gravity of behaviour, or by some ill-temper. Few individuals, however, can long reflect about a hated person, without feeling and exhibiting signs of indignation or rage. But if the offending person be quite insignificant, we experience merely disdain or contempt. If, on the other hand, he is all-powerful, then hatred passes into terror, as when a slave thinks about a cruel master, or a savage about a bloodthirsty malignant deity. Most of our emotions are so closely connected with their expression, that they hardly exist if the body remains passive—the nature of the expression depending in chief part on the nature of the actions which have been habitually performed under this particular state of the mind. A man, for instance, may know that his life is in the extremest peril, and may strongly desire to save it, yet may exclaim as did Louis XVI., when surrounded by a fierce mob, “Am I afraid? feel my pulse.” So a man may intensely hate another, but until his bodily frame is affected he cannot be said to be enraged.
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- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals , pp. 249 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009