it works the other way around: we feel fear because our heart is racing, because our palms are sweating, because our legs are propelling us forward. As he put it: “Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike.” But, he went on, “this order of sequence is incorrect.” It would be more accurate, wrote James, to say that “we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble.”
