Pleasure in Humour--What is Laughter?--Sympathy--First Phases--Gradual Development--Emotional Phase--Laughter of Pleasure--Hostile Laughter--Is there any sense of the Ludicrous in the Lower Animals?--Samson--David--Solomon--Proverbs--Fables 13 Birth of Humour--Personalities--Story of Hippocleides--Origin of Comedy--Archilochus--Hipponax--Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher--Aristophanes--Humour of the Senses--Indelicacy--Enfeeblement of the Drama--Humorous Games--Parasites, their Position and Jests--Philoxenus--Diogenes--Court of Humour--Riddles--Silli 52…
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