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Absurdity,

bubble of, 111.

Accent, fallacy of, 264.

Accumulation, principle of, 111.

Activity,

artistic, 10;

human, 102;

law of spontaneous, 286;

mental, 204;

psycho-physiological, 206.

Aesthetic development, 293.

Alliteration, 278.

Analects, Confucian, 218.

Analogy,

false, 247;

of associations, 190, 191.

Anglo-Saxon games, 281.

Anti-climax, 275.

Antisthenes, 221.

Antithesis, 214.

Antonyms, 214.

Aristophanes, 20, 28, 34, 35, 36, 37, 43, 49, 58, 59, 60, 82, 112, 140, 154.

Aristotle, 59, 65, 73, 100, 140, 204, 206, 214, 215, 220, 228, 284.

Arnold, Matthew, 156.

Art, 4, 284;

character of, 286;

function of, 285, 287, 293;

high form of, 293;

low form of, 282;

of comic, 86;

purpose of, 285.

Artist,

selection by, 285.

Artistic activity, 10.

Artistic illusion, 229.

Aryan, 140.

Associations, 203;

Analogy of, 190, 191;

of contiguity, 116;

of contrast, 242;

subconscious, 203;

tangle of, 280.

Attention,

distraction of, 64;

fixation of, 64.

Australians, 4.

Avarice, 224.

Badinage, 287.

Bain, 64, 65;

on the comic, 66.

Banter, 287.

Baseball, 4, 11.

Bergson, 149, 227.

Biological aspect of ridicule, 39, 40.

Blending,

principle of, 109.

Blindness,

mental, 151.

Boccaccio, 203.

Bonds of individuality, 284.

Brevity in wit, 215.

Bunyan, 168, 169, 170, 171.

Burlesque, 254.

Bushmen, 4.

Caricature, 254.

Cartoon, 254, 255.

Catharsis, 284.

Cervantes, 114, 140, 153, 286.

Changes, 27, 28.

Children,

play of, 15.

Christ, 143.

Civilization,

law of material, 13.

Climax, 236.

Combinations,

contrasting, 102.

Comedy, 1, 140, 146;

task of, 72.

Comic, the, 2, 15, 26, 65, 74, 75, 79, 98, 99, 101, 104, 118, 138, 146, 147, 160, 204, 206, 207, 231, 242, 253, 271, 283;

art of, 86;

Bain on, 66;

definition of, 65;

domain of, 82;

early roots of, 282;

root of, 207;

sources of, 204;

subject, 153;

trimurti of, 174.

Conceit, 84, 85.

Condensation, 206.

Confucius, 164.

Consciousness,

of superiority, 81;

of waste energy, 70.

Constraint,

relief from, 74.

Contiguity,

associations of, 116.

Contrast, 214, 242;

associations of, 242, 287;

law of, 78.

Contrast relation, 86.

Contrasting combinations, 102.

Crime, 231.

Cruelty,

factor of, 283.

Custom, 24, 28, 29, 231, 232, 233.

Dante, 286.

Darwin, 5.

Daudet, 159.

Defects,

unconsciousness of, 100.

Delusions of grandeur, 99.

Democritus, 221.

Descartes, 210, 211.

Deviation, 39, 242;

process of, 242.

Dickens, 283, 284.

Difficult,

law of the, 12.

Disillusionment, 82.

Dissemblance, 86.

Dissipation of energy, 225.

Dissociation of attention, 64.

Double play, 200.

Double sense, 214.

Drama,

function of, 286.

Dramatic genius, 286.

Economy,

of energy, 69;

of thought, 206:

principle of, 207.

Emerson, 221.

Energy, 10;

consciousness of waste of, 70;

dissipation of, 225;

economy of, 69;

expenditure of, 224;

law of release of, 69;

manifestation of reserve, 72;

superfluous, 69;

surplus, 207;

unimpeded, 210.

Enthymemes, 204, 215.

Epictetus, 165, 166, 167.

Equivocation, 214;

fallacy of, 258.

Esquimaux, 4.

Euripides, 286.

Evil,

exemption from, 68.

Expectancy, feeling of, 228.

Expenditure of energy, 224.

Fallacy,

of accent, 264;

of equivocation, 258.

Fear of social ridicule, 51.

Feeling of expectancy, 228.

Fighting instinct, 72.

Fixation of attention, 64.

Football game, 4, 11, 12.

Franklin, Benjamin, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 221.

Freud, 81, 205, 206.

Galton, 52.

Game,

football, 4, 11, 12.

Games, 3, 11, 12;

Anglo-Saxon, 281.

Genius,

dramatic, 286.

Ghosts, 60, 61.

Goethe, 94.

Gogol, 16, 18.

Goldsmith, 238, 240.

Goodrich, 133.

Grandeur,

delusions of, 99.

Greek, 4.

Groos, 72.

Harmony,

pre-established, 48.

Harte, Bret, 136, 137.

Hegel, 20, 21, 22, 23.

Heine, 126, 127, 154, 155, 174.

Heraclitus 57, 76, 221.

Hobbes, 65.

Homer, 15, 121, 122, 123.

Homonyms, 214.

Hugo, Victor, 16, 251, 252.

Human activity, 102.

Humor, 179, 205, 281, 283;

highest form of, 290, 293.

Hypnoid states, 64.

Hypnoidization, 64.

Hypocrisy, 83.

Ignorance, 152.

Illusion, 82, 101.

Imitation, 210, 250, 257.

Inanimate object, 102.

Incongruity, 247.

Indirect suggestion, 206.

Individuality, 146;

bonds of, 284.

Inferiority, 206;

relations of, 105, 206.

Infinite, 281.

Ingoldsby, Thomas, 61, 62.

Instinct, 11, 283;

fighting, 72;

low, 281.

Intellectual development, 293.

Interchange,

principal of, 111.

Irony, 86, 87, 96, 115;

Socratic, 182.

Irving, Washington, 133.

Joke, 186, 189, 191, 203, 228, 231, 255.

Joy,

emotion of, 2.

Kant, 77.

Korolenko, 288.

Laughter, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 25, 26, 53, 68, 69, 71, 73, 77, 78, 80, 82, 103, 116, 117, 139, 140, 147, 186, 199, 207, 216, 231, 242, 278, 281;

as moral purge, 140;

ascending, 23;

descending, 23;

love and, 145;

of triumph, 14.

Law,

of contrast, 78;

of material civilization, 13;

of normal suggestion, 206;

of release of energy, 69;

of relief, 77;

of spontaneous activity, 3;

of suggestibility, 205;

of suggestion, 200;

of the difficult, 12;

of the intellectual element, 13;

of transference, 103;

of Weber-Fechner, 13.

Leibnitz, 48.

Lessing, 286.

Lichtenberg, 239.

Limericks, 27.

Logic, 258, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268.

Love, 141, 145, 287, 291, 292;

and laughter, 145.

Lucian, 31, 32, 112, 113, 114.

Lucretius, 67.

Ludicrous,

the, 15, 39, 53, 69, 78, 82, 86, 102, 103, 109, 110, 115, 116, 172, 176, 186, 188, 200, 201, 203, 206, 215, 224, 225, 229, 232, 242, 249, 254, 260, 270, 274, 275, 278, 280;

essence of, 151;

source of, 225.

Mach, 207.

Make-believe, 82.

Malice, 138, 139, 145, 282, 283.

Mandeville, Bernard de, 49.

Manifestation of reserve energy, 72.

Marcus Aurelius, 167.

Mechanical,

the, 149, 150.

Mediocrity, 151, 155.

Mental activity, 204.

Metaphor, 214.

Mimicry, 253.

Molière, 18.

Monotony, 75;

of stimulation, 77.

Montaigne, 232.

Moral development, 293.

Motor reactions, 253.

Normal suggestibility, 205.

Novelty, 231.

Object,

inanimate, 102.

Obscene,

joke, 282.

Omar Khayyam, 222.

Optimism, 49.

Pain, 282.

Parody, 55, 126.

Pascal, 42, 92, 225, 227.

Pearson, Karl, 206.

Personality, 53, 146.

Personification, 103.

Petitio principii, 265.

Pharisees, 143.

Philistine, 156.

Pindar, 24.

Plato, 29, 88, 175, 176, 177, 178, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 217.

Play, 3, 79, 101;

of children, 15.

Poe, Edgar, 55.

Principle,

of accumulation, 111;

of blending, 109;

of deviation, 242;

of economy, 207;

of interchange, 115;

of lack of energy, 32.

Psychological moment, 190.

Psychological activity, 206.

Pun, 258.

Purification through laughter, 140.

Purpose of art, 285.

Pythagoras, 221.

Readiness of reply, 210.

Relations of inferiority, 105, 206.

Relaxation, 74, 75, 77, 79.

Relief,

from constraint, 74;

laws of, 77.

Religion, 4, 29.

Repartee, 210.

Repetition,

of joke, 228, 231.

Reserve energy, 67, 215;

manifestation of, 72.

Response to stimulus, 68.

Riddle, 228, 229.

Ridicule, 20, 28, 31, 35, 38, 40, 41, 42, 50, 53, 64, 65, 67, 69, 73, 74, 75, 81, 86, 98, 99, 101, 112, 116, 117, 145, 150, 155, 186, 188, 210, 217, 218, 225, 254, 260, 276, 282, 284, 292;

biological aspect of, 39, 40;

fear of social, 51;

function of, 227;

subject of, 152.

Roman, 4.

Roman gladiatorial games, 12.

Root of the comic, 207.

Sa’di, 239.

Sarcasm, 205.

Satire, 205.

Schopenhauer, 21, 82, 85, 93, 101, 139, 155, 224.

Selection,

principle of, 286.

Sexual energy, 81.

Sexual instinct, 81.

Shakespeare, 16, 18, 86, 118, 119, 120, 123, 124, 157, 220, 256, 257, 279.

Shows,

vulgar, 281.

Similarity, 214.

Sin, 231.

Sleep, 76.

Social element, 190.

Society, 39, 40, 41, 51, 52, 53.

Socrates, 59, 145.

Sophists, 176.

Source of comic, 204.

Spanish bull-fight, 12.

Spencer, 77.

Spiller on the comic, 138.

Stimulation,

monotony of, 77.

Stockton, Frank, 63, 111, 115, 116.

Stupidity, 152.

Subconscious,

the, 58, 203.

Subconscious associations, 203.

Subconscious energy, 146.

Subconscious reserve energy, 69.

Subject of the comic, 153.

Suggestibility, 190;

law of, 205;

normal, 205.

Suggestion, 52, 189;

indirect, 206;

law of, 200;

law of normal, 206.

Superfluous energy, 68, 69.

Superiority,

consciousness of, 81.

Surplus energy, 207.

Surprise, 228.

Swift, 96, 125.

Sympathy, 63, 145, 146, 282, 292.

Synonyms, 214.

Thought,

economy of, 206.

Thresholds, 77.

Tolstoy, 168, 289, 290.

Toys, 5.

Tragedy, 146.

Transference,

law of, 103.

Travesty, 55.

Triumph,

laughter of, 14.

Trivial,

the, 77, 96.

Twain, Mark, 128, 284.

Type,

artistic, 204.

Types, 288;

universal, 285.

Unconscious vanity, 100.

Unconsciousness of defects, 151.

Unimpeded energy, 210.

Universal types, 285.

Unreality, 82.

Vanity, 84, 85, 97;

unconscious, 100.

Voltaire, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 60, 115.

Vulgar shows, 281.

Weber-Fechner,

law of, 13.

Wit, 204, 206, 214;

characteristic of, 215;

definition of, 216;

form of thought, 223;

object of, 216;

nature of, 215, 223.