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But a brain endowed with self control,—as Man's is indirectly,—is so naturally and rightly interested in its own faculties that some psychological and semipsychological questions would probably get touched, such as Why should there be so much beauty as there is throughout Nature? Why, for example, should sunsets be so generally beautiful? A purely psychological question might be, What are pleasure and pain? Are they sensations, feelings, modes of awareness in themselves; or are they motor impulses of attraction to and repulsion from the feelings that excite them; or are they of a mixed nature, consisting of impulses together with slight feelings by which these impulses are distinguished; or are the formation and rupture of associations their chief elements? Are they alike in constitution or are their constitutions

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