Aristotle on Emotions; No Specific Text Given [x]

Aristotle on Emotions; No Specific Text Given [x]

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George Eliot to Charles Bray, 21 July 1852. "Do not be anxious about me -- there is no cause. I am profiting, body and mind, from quiet walks and talks with Nature -- gathering ‘Lady's Bedstraw’ and ‘Rest Harrow’ and other pretty things -- picking up shells (not in the Newtonian sense, but literally) -- reading Aristotle to find out what is the chief good, and eating mutton chops that I may have strength to pursue it. If you insist on my writing about "Emotions," why, I must get some up expressly for the purpose. But I must own I would rather not, for it is the grand wish and object of my life to get rid of them as far as possible, seeing they have already had more than their share of my nervous energy." GEL 2: 46

Aristotle, Aristotle on Emotions; No Specific Text Given [x], George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57898