Community of Ideas of Men and Women

consciousness of the pain's intrinsic quality, and the consciousness of its degree of intolerability, which is a secondary affair, seemingly connected with reflex organic irradiations" (PSYCH. R E V . , Sept. 1894, p. ^23, note). This puts the whole matter in a nutshell. The total experience of extreme pain, which on the traditional theory could only be classed as a ' feeling,' something neither a cognition nor a volition, now falls apart into a sensation on the one hand and an emotional reaction on the other. And this explains how slight pains may sometimes be interesting and almost pleasant, and how bad tastes and odors may be excessively unpleasant without being in the proper sense painful. The separation of physical pain from displeasure, in short, though it may seem at first sight ' a bold assumption,' will, I think, be found both a necessary and a fruitful one. C. A. STRONG.