IN DEFENCE OF LAUGHTER.
A LEARNED THEORT.
ANHDOTE TO EXOESSIYS SYMPATHY.
Times -Sydney San Special. Received 6 15 p.m. London, Sept. 14. At the Brit is i Association, Dr. McDongall, of Oxford, submittei a new theory on laugfcter. He argued ta at langhter was primarily an i fan amentally an antidote of sympathy Sympathetic tendencies were of first importance for s cial life, bnt a serious disadvantage if each man had to suffer all t>ose minor pains from which > is fellows ailed.
The cumulative effect of many slight pains would seriously lower the vitality. Hence the sooial habits required an antidote or preventive to these sympathetic pains. Nature, therefore had created laughter as a protective reaction against them.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 2025, 15 September 1913, Page 5
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