This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... IV. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LAUGHTER. 'HY do we smile when a child puts on a man's hat f VV or what induces us to laugh on reading that the corpulent Gibbon was unable to rise from his knees after making a tender declaration? The usual reply to such questions is, that laughter results from a perception of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... IV. THE PHYSIOLOGY OF LAUGHTER. 'HY do we smile when a child puts on a man's hat f VV or what induces us to laugh on reading that the corpulent Gibbon was unable to rise from his knees after making a tender declaration? The usual reply to such questions is, that laughter results from a perception of incongruity. Even were there not on this reply the obvious criticism that laughter often occurs from extreme pleasure or from mere vivacity, there would still remain the real problem--How comes a sense of the incongruous to be followed by these peculiar bodily actions? Some have alleged that laughter is due to the pleasure of a relative selfelevation, which we feel on seeing the humiliation of others. But this theory, whatever portion of truth it may contain, is, in the first place, open to the fatal objection, that there are various humiliations to others which produce in us anything but laughter; and, in the second place, it does not apply to the many instances in which no one's dignity is implicated: as when we laugh at a good pun. Moreover, like the other, it is merely a generalization of certain conditions to laughter; and not an explanation of the odd movements which occur under these conditions. Why, when greatly delighted, or impressed with certain unexHXtJ8TEATION8 OF EEFLEX ACTION. 195 pected contrasts of ideas, should there be a contraction of particular fecial muscles, and particular muscles of the chest and abdomen? Such answer to this question as may be possible, can be rendered only by physiology. Every child has made the attempt to hold the foot still while it is tickled, and has failed; and probably there is scarcely any one who has not vainly tried to avoid winking, when a hand has been suddenly passed before the eyes. These...
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D. Appleton, New York, 1890. Revised, Good., Hardcover, Small octavo, 454. Text clean. No dust jacket. 454 pages. Light cover wear. New and revised edition, 1890. Packed and shipped with care.
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Near Fine. 8vo 8"-9" tall; 446 pages; Early reprint. HC in publisher's original pebbled brown cloth with decorative design in blind to board; title lettering brightly in gilt to sine. Superficial foxing top edge, and trace bumping at bottom corners. Bright clean copy; very well preserved. NF.
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Good. Size: 7x5x1; [Interesting provenance, previously owned by Parke Godwin] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings. Sunning to edges. Shelf wear. Front end pages starting to detach. Scattered markings. Small stain to edge. Contemporary signature of Godwin on title page. 446 p., 21 cm. "Parke Godwin, 1816-1904, was an American journalist and editor. He became associated, while working on the New York Evening Post, with William Cullen Bryant, whose daughter he married. He later published a biography of Bryant (1883) and edited his works (4 vol., 1883-84). He retained his connection with the Post for nearly 45 years, following Bryant as editor in 1878, but because of differences with the owners, he resigned in 1881 and became editor of the Commercial Advertiser. Godwin, sympathetic with Brook Farm and with Fourierism Fourier, wrote 'A Popular View of the Doctrines of Fourier' (1844), and for a time edited the Harbinger, the Fourierist magazine. He translated part of Goethe's autobiography (1846-47) and other works from the German." Contents: Progress: its law and cause. --Manners and fashion. --The genesis of science. --The physiology of laughter. --The origin and function of music. --The nebular hypothesis. --Brain on the emotions and the will. --Illogical geology. --The development hypothesis. --The social organism. --Use and beauty. --The sources of architectural types. --The use of anthropomorphism. Progress: its law and cause. --Manners and fashion. --The genesis of science. --The physiology of laughter. --The origin and function of music. --The nebular hypothesis. --Bain on the emotions and the will. --Illogical geology. --The development hypothesis. --The social organism. --Use and beauty. --The sources of architectural types. --The use of anthropomorphism.
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