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Credit: The philosophy of laughter and smiling. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![to be found only .among mankind. The foct, in both these cases, is to be attributed entirely to the erroneous and vicious train- ing of children.] “The rocks, the plants, the beasts, the birds, neither do anything ridiculous, nor betray a perception of anything absurd done in their presence. “ And as the lower nature does not jest, neither does the highest. “ Reason does not jest, and men of reason do not. A prophet in Avhom the moral sentiment predominates, or a philosopher in whom the love of truth predominates—these do not joke. “ Beware of jokes. As soon as the com- pany gives in to this we shall have no Olympus. True wit never made us laugh. “ In all the parts of life the occasion of laughter is some seeming—some keeping of M](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21523691_0261.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
