The books title is the emotions and the will but the book is more about the mind and its control over our affective life in bains treatment of this subject it was unclear how mental volitional and affective components relate to each other feelings are divided into sensations and emotions but that distinction is not always clear. The present publication is a sequel to my former one on the senses and the intellect and completes a systematic exposition of the human mind the generally admitted but vaguely conceived doctrine of the connection between mind and body has been throughout discussed definitely in treating of the emotions i include whatever is known of the physical embodiment of each. The emotions and the will by alexander bain publication date 1875 publisher longmans green collection europeanlibraries digitizing sponsor google book from the collections of oxford university language english book digitized by google from the library of oxford university and uploaded to the internet archive by user tpb. The generally admitted but vaguely conceived doctrine of the connection between mind and body has been throughout discussed definitely in treating of the emotions i include whatever is known of the physical embodiment of each the natural history method adopted in delineating the sensations is continued in the treatise on the emotions. The emotions and the will alexander bain the present publication is a sequel to my former one on the senses and the intellect and completes a systematic exposition of the human mind the generally admitted but vaguely conceived