The Secret of Laughter

The theory expounded in this book, however, makes the evolution of laughter perfectly clear, and accounts quite satisfactorily for the fact that, as an expression of joy and pleasure, it should be found only in Man. This is an age in which laughter and all the means of provoking it stand very much higher than they have ever stood before in public esteem, more particularly in Anglo-Saxon countries. It can hardly be said, therefore, that the subject is uninteresting or untopical; and, seeing... Voir plus