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Creator (Definite): 1st Viscount St. Alban Francis BaconDate: 1620
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Quoted by Henry Maudsley, The Physiology and Pathology of the Mind. 1867.
Description:'it may be fitly said, with Bacon, "that the mind in its own nature would be temperate and staid, if the affections, as winds, did not put it in tumult and perturbation.' (133)
note to 'the specific chartacter of the emotion... It is, in reality, the specific character of the idea which determines the specfic character of the emotion; and accordingly emotions are as many and various as ideas.' (136); '"For it is not his disputations about pleasure and pain that can satisfy this inquiry ; no more than he who should generally handle the nature of light can be said to handle the nature of particular colours ; for pleasure and pain are to the particular affections as light is to particular colours." — Bacon, de Augment. Scient.' (145)