AN ESSAY ON LAUGHTER
 by JAMES SULLY
BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
THE HUMAN MIND: a Text-book of Psychology. 2vols. 8vo, 21s.
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LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.,
LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY.
AN ESSAY
ON
LAUGHTER
ITS FORMS, ITS CAUSES, ITS DEVELOPMENTAND ITS VALUE
BY
JAMES SULLY, M.A., LL.D.
AUTHOR OF “THE HUMAN MIND,” “STUDIES OFCHILDHOOD,” ETC.
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK AND BOMBAY
1902
TO
MY CHILDREN AND MY PUPILS
IN THE HOPE
THAT IF THEY CULTIVATE BOTH BRAIN AND HEART,
AND HAVE A QUICK EAR FOR
THE MUFFLED MOANINGS ALONG THE ROAD,
THEY MAY HEAR ALSO,
ABOVE THE DEEPER MUSIC,
THE BLITHE NOTES OF LAUGHTER.
PREFACE.
The present work is, I believe, thefirst attempt to treat on a considerable scale thewhole subject of Laughter, under its various aspects,and in its connections with our serious activities andinterests. As such, it will, I feel sure, lay itselfopen to the criticism that it lacks completeness, or atleast, proportion. A further criticism to which, I feelequally sure, it will expose itself, is that it clearlyreflects the peculiarities of the experience of the writer.The anticipation of this objection does not, however,disturb me. It seems to me to be not only inevitable, butdesirable—at least at the present stage of our knowledge ofthe subject—that one who attempts to understand an impulse,of which the intensities and the forms appear to varygreatly among men, of which the workings are often subtle,and of which the significance is by no means obvious,should, while making full use of others’ impressions, drawlargely on his own experience.
Portions of the volume have already appearedin Reviews. Chapter I. was published (under thetitle “Prolegomena to a Theory of Laughter”) inThe Philosophical Review, 1900; Chapter V., in theRevue Philosophique, 1902; and Chapter VIII., inThe International Monthly, 1901. The parts ofChapters III. and VI. which treat of the psychologyof tickling appeared in the Compte rendu ofthe Fourth Inter                        
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