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Lullay! lullay! lytel child, why wepy thou so sore,Thou art bothin God and man, what woldyst thou be more?
Although the characteristics of the temperament which is commonly known as nervous, neurotic or highly-strung, are manifold, no very wide experience of cases of this kind is needed to establish beyond any reasonable doubt that the neuroses are essentially disorders of the emotions. It may be open to question whether they are the outcome of a superabundance of feelings, or of anomalous control of feelings which are themselves in no way exceptional, or whether both these factors are of account. But certain it is- that they involve no emotion which is not also to be found in the average man or woman, the peculiarities of the neurotic temperament lying rather in the peculiar manifestations of these ordinary feelings. Herein we may recognize a connection between the normal and the pathological, the neuroses being merely disorders of the normal emotions