CHAPTER IX. — THE CORRESPONDENCE OF EMOTIONS :

The General law — The special laws — Illustra- tions— Metaphysical considerations and psy- chological explanations — Why and How —
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Material reasons — Extraordinary JTvas — Tables. ...149—158.
•CHAPTER X. — EMOTION IN ART :
(a) Poetry and Literature : — Their essential na- ture—Definition of Poetry — R a s a — An inter- blending of cognitive, emotional and pleasure- tone elements— The element of unreality there- in—Ornaments or Figures of Speech— The Object of Poetry.
(b) The Nature of Pleasure ai d Pain : — Pleasure, the feeling of the Expansion of the self— Pain, a Contraction of it— As physical facts— Meta- physical explanations — Genesis of triplets by mutual superimposition of qualities between Self and Not-Self— Morbid pleasures and pains — Relativity and limitations of all statements — Swing between selfishness and unselfishness and balance of justice or constant adjustment — The two classes of emotions corresponding to the two classes of Jivas.
(c) The Essential Object of Literature :— Dual mental pictures accompanying desire— The form of Poetry — The significance of Literature, and of the World-Process, in terms of Emotion —Various types of literature.
relishes, tastes, unctions, or sentiments of poet- ry—An objection— The answer— The Fearful — The Cruel and Disgusting— The Pathetic — Danger of over-indulgence in imaginary -Benevolence— Comparative absence of Tra-
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gedy from Samskrt Imaginative Literature — Classification of the rasas under the two main Emotions of Love and Hate.
(e) The Other Arts : — The sensuons element pre- dominant in them — Admixture of Emotional elements— Dangers of 'art for art's sake' — Sub- servience to distant ends. .. 159—193.