We are now to consider, briefly, the regulation of the affections, which may include the feelings and emotions, but are deeper and more abiding. Emotions come and go with their exciting cause, as when suffering kindles emotions of sympathy and pity. Affection is a habitual bent toward an object—a permanent attitude and habitude, not dependent upon the presence of its object for its existence or persistence. Hence, however important to control feeling and emotion, it is of vital consequence to regulate