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 emotions and the will by alexander bain publication date 1865 publisher longmans green collection americana digitizing sponsor google book from the collections of harvard university language english book digitized by google from the library of harvard university and uploaded to the internet archive by user tpb. 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 union of the mind and body introduces just as much change in the second group of our thoughts the emotions of the will as we have noticed in the first group the perceptions of the understanding for just as we saw that the minds union with the body provided it with other ways of perceiving apart from pure understanding which is what is . 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