The second objection which Plato raises against poetry is that poetry is addressed to the passional element in man.

The main thread of the narrative traces through a labyrinth of loosely connected scenes and events the growth of the hero's character,a progressive training by various influences, passional, intellectual, social, moral, and religious.

If, on the one hand, his loves had revealed to him the passional side of feminine nature, he had enjoyed, on the other, the friendship of some of the purest and noblest of womankind.

Ye shall enjoy spiritual and passional freedom; your guides shall no longer be the despotism of ignorant laws, nor the whip of an imaginary conscience,but the natural impulses of your nature, which are the melody of Life, and the natural affinities, which are its harmony!

Ferragut recognized here military justice, expeditious, intuitive, passional, attentive to the sentiments that have scarcely any weight in other tribunals, judging by the action of conscience more than by the letter of the law, and capable of shooting a man with the same dispatch that he would employ in setting him at liberty.

In reality she was the only woman who had loved him sincerely, as she was able to love, without violence or passional exaggeration, and with the tranquillity of a comrade.

He was far from that naval captain at Salonica who had so well understood his passional errors.

Anna, supposed to be far away and away by choice, was still under the whole command's impeachment, while Flora, amid conditions that gave every week the passional value of a peacetime year, was here at hand, an ever-ministering angel to them and to their hero; yet they never included him and Flora in one thought together but to banish it, though with tender reverence.

Passional Respiration.

The voice being the language of the sensitive life, the passional state must pass entirely into the voice.

There are three sorts of types in man: constitutional or formal, fugitive or passional, and habitual.

The passional or fugitive type forms the constant subject of the study of this series.

The shoulder, in every man who is moved or agitated, rises sensibly, his will playing no part in the ascension; the successive developments of this involuntary act are in absolute proportion to the passional intensity whose numeric measure they form; the shoulder may, therefore, be fitly called the thermometer of the sensibility.

And it is thus that the shoulder and the face enter into harmonious relations to complete the passional sense which they have to determine mutually and by distinct paths.

I now possess the semeiotics of the shoulder, and thereby I hold the criterion of the passional or sensitive powersa criterion outside of which no truth can be demonstrated in the sphere of sentiment or feeling.

Æsthetics is the science of the sensitive and passional manifestations which are the object of art, and whose psychic form it constitutes.

These forms, which we will call accidental, passional or transitory, are fugitive as the things which give them birth.

In other words, three characters may be attributed to respiration: Vocal, logical, pathetic or passional.

Passional Respiration.

The source of passional respiration lies in the agitation of the heart.

Under the sway of emotion the voice is modulated and assumes forms which we will call passional or transitory.

Passional expression passes from the shoulder, where it is in the emotional state, to the elbow, where it is presented in the affectional state; then to the wrist and the thumb, where it is presented in the susceptive and volitional state.

Passional trueness.

Let us pass to passional trueness, leaving science to enter the domain of art.

"Passional trueness," said Delsarte, "consists in giving each semitone three, four, five, six, or even seven commas, according to its tendency."