The Passions of the Human Soul and Their Influence on Society and Civilization Volume One

Introduction by Hugh Doherty
PART I.—THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL (THE FIVE SENSES)
Section I .—Of External Luxury
1. The passional tree: its duality, and its subdivisions into shaded and potential series
2. The passions in potential scale
3. The classification of the senses into active, passive, and neuter; into simple, ambiguous, and compound ; and into major \' and minor modes
4. Of the five anti-luxuries or subversive developments of the senses in internal and external
Section II.—Of Internal Luxury, and of the Sensual Blanks or Internal Poverties
1. Of the material depravation, or subversive development of the series
2. Subversive state of sight in the accords of powers, nought, first, second
3. Subversive state of sight in cardinal accords, the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth powers
Intermediate Chapter. Of progression in free and in measured accords
4. Of the visual accords of the seventh degree, or somnambulism
5. Appendix respecting the exception, and on obscurantism
Section III.—Complement Upon the Internal Luxury in the Sense of Vision
1. Of the visual accords of the eighth indirect or positive unity: aerial telegraph or celestial mirror
2. Visual accords of the eighth degree in inverse or negative unity: transethereal vision
3. Elucidations upon two problems of visual unity. Extramundane planetary telegraph. Sidereal correspondence
4. Complementary remarks on the analysis of the sense of vision
Appendix
5. Application to all the senses.—Comparative summary on the sensual accords
6. Transcendent accords of touch
7. Conclusions respecting the passional gamuts
Citerlogue. Pastime of sidereal correspondence, transmission of the universal language, and of the knowledge acquired in all the worlds
Posterior Chapter. Perspective of the fate of souls. Office of matter in the system of the universe. Necessity of material happiness in general harmony
PART II.—THE SEVEN ANIMIC PASSIONS
Section I.—Of the Group of Friendship
Anterior Chapter. Of the study of the four affective groups, or passions, called cardinal
1. Elementary notions respecting the four groups
2. Of the group of friendship or of confusion. Potential scale of friendship
3. Of the low accords of friendship—heterophily, monophily, hemiphily, and their mixts
4. Of the cardinal accords of friendship
5. Of the transcendent accords of friendship: seventh ultraphily, X eighth, omniphily, direct Y, and inverse ʎ
Section II.—Of the three Groups of Ambition, Love, and Familism
1. Of the hypermajor group, or ambition
2. Of. the two scales of ambition
3. Of the byperminor group, or love
4. Of the hypominor group—familism or parentage, consanguinity, descent
5. Appendix on errors respecting the properties of familism
6. Contrasted properties of the groups in harmony
7. Of the passional dominants and tonics
Posterior Chapter. To the impatient