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    16 Analysis ofLaughter*

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    ANALYSIS OF LAUGHTER

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    Mr Serjeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill.*

    for the sake of their own interest ; and the public will have the satisfaction of knowing , that a

    little more of the expenditure on books is likely to find its way into the pockets of the authors , or of their children , their more anxious care .

    It would be a most useless task to endeavour to refute Mr Tegg ' s extremely onesided arguments ; he is blinded by timidity , by fear of change ,

    and by self interest , and neither will nor can comprehend the question he undertakes to discuss . In spite of his dedication to Sir Robert Peel , we doubt if he has much chance of

    influencing the better knowledge of any of the more intelligent Members of the Opposition , not excepting Sir Robert , a man who knows far more about

    Mr Serjeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill.*

    books and the proprieties of aesthetics , even than Mr Tegg , though so many thousands of volumes have passed through the worthy bookseller ' s hands . We have reason to believe that Mr

    Tegg is not an ill-meaning man ; but he is incapacitated for being impartial by the interests of his trade , or he would not betray such an anxiety to persuade authors that they ought to be content with " fame" as

    full payment for all their labours , nor dwell so much upon what we cannot but call the cant of " public advantage" as opposed to private . Why does he not himself , especially now that he has made himself an

    independency , distribute useful books at prime cost ? What a public benefactor should we then have in Thomas Tegg !

    16 Analysis Oflaughter*

    16 Analysis ofLaughter *

    Analysis Of Laughter

    ANALYSIS OF LAUGHTER

    Analysis Of Laughter

    " To blow a large , regular , and durable soap bubble /* says Sir J . _Herschel , " may become the serious occupation of the i _i _* i _i »» _ .. i i natural philosopher ;"—and his

    fellow enquirer , the student of mind , may employ a very grave hour of serious thought over a jest book , in separating combinations of ideas which the wits so easily put together—analysing— ( cracking by a second

    Analysis Of Laughter

    but more sober process)—the jokes it stores . Some such enterprise I now attempt- Laughter , the most obvious sign of a sense of the ludicrous , is produced by

    sensations and ideas . It is not my purpose to say more on the p hysical circumstances attending the ludicrous of sensation , than is just sufficient to mark its place and the analogy which

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/14/