Fear, rage and pain, and the pangs of hunger are all primitive experiences which human beings share with the lower animals. These experiences are properly classed \ as among the most powerful that determine the action of^men and beasts. A knowledge of the conditions | which attend these experiences, therefore, is of general and fundamental importance in the interpretation of behavior.
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