Things done, that took the eye and had the price;
O'er which, from level stand,
The low world laid its hand,
Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice:
But all, the world's coarse thumb
And finger failed to plumb,
So passed in making up the main account;
All instincts immature,
All purposes unsure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's
Thoughts hardly to be packed
Into a narrow act,
Fancies that broke through language and escaped;
All I could never be,
All, men ignored in me,
This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Absent-mindedness, 149.
Absurdity, bubble of, III.
Accent, fallacy of, 264.
Accumulation,
Artist, selection by, 285.
Artistic activity, 10.
Artistic illusion, 229.
principle of, Artistic type, 204.
Aryan, 140.
Activity, artistic, 10; human,
102; law of spontaneous,
286; mental, 204; psycho-
physiological, 206.
Esthetic development, 293.
Alliteration, 278.
Allusion, 199, 203, 205, 206.
Analects, Confucian, 218.
Analogy, false, 247; of asso-
ciations, 190, 191.
Anglo-Saxon games, 281.
Anti-climax, 275.
Antithesis, 214.
Antonyms, 214.
Aristophanes, 20, 28, 34, 35,
36, 37, 43, 49, 58, 59, 60, 82,
112, 140, 154.
Aristotle, 59, 65, 73, 100, 140,
204, 206, 214, 215, 220, 228,
284.
Arnold, Matthew, 156.
Art, 4, 284; character of, 286;
function of, 285, 287, 293;
high form of, 293; low
form of, 282; of comic, 86;
purpose of, 285.
Associations, 203; analogy of,
190, 191; of contiguity,
116; of contrast, 242; sub-
conscious, 203; tangle of,
280.
Attention, distraction of, 64;
fixation of, 64.
Australians, 4.
Avarice, 224.
Bain, 64, 65; on the comic,
66.
Banter, 287.
Baseball, 4, II.
Bergson, 149, 227.
Biological aspect of ridicule,
39, 40.
Blending, principle of, 109.
Blindness, mental, 151.
Boccaccio, 203.
Bonds of individuality, 284.
Brevity in wit, 215.
Bunyan, 168, 169, 170, 171.
Burlesque, 254.
Bushmen, 4.
Civilization, law of material, Defects, unconsciousness of,
Combinations, contrasting, 102.
Comedy, 1, 140, 146; task of,
72.
Comic, the, 2, 15, 26, 65, 74,
75, 79, 98, 99, 101, 104, 118,
138, 146, 147, 160, 204, 206,
207, 231, 242, 253, 271, 283;
art of, 86; Bain on, 66; defi-
nition of, 65; domain of,
82; early roots of, 282;
root of, 207; sources of,
204; subject of, 153; tri-
murti of, 174.
Conceit, 84, 85.
Condensation, 206.
Confucius, 164.
Consciousness, of superiority,
81; of waste energy, 70.
Constraint, relief from, 74.
Contiguity, associations of,
116.
Contrast, 214, 242; associa-
tions of, 242, 287; law of,
78.
Contrast relation, 86.
Contrasting combinations,
Delusions of grandeur, 99.
Democritus, 221.
Descartes, 210, 211.
Deviation, 39, 242; process of,
242.
Dickens, 283, 284.
Difficult, law of the, 12.
Disillusionment, 82.
Dissemblance, 86.
Dissipation of energy, 225.
Dissociation, 211, 223, 233.
Distraction of attention, 64.
Double play, 200.
Double sense, 214.
Drama, function of, 286.
Dramatic genius, 286.
Economy, of energy, 69; of
thought, 206; principle of,
207.
Energy, 10; consciousness of
waste of, 70; dissipation of,
225; economy of, 69; ex-
penditure of, 224; law of
release of, 69; manifesta-
tion of reserve, 72; super-
fluous, 69; surplus, 207;
unimpeded, 210.
Enthymemes, 204, 215.
Epictetus, 165, 166, 167.
Equivocation, 214; fallacy of,
258.
Esquimaux, 4.
Euripides, 286.
Evil, exemption from, 68.
Expectancy, feeling of, 228.
Expenditure of energy, 224.
Heine, 126, 127, 154, 155, 174.
Heraclitus 57, 76, 221.
Homer, 15, 121, 122, 123.
Homonyms, 214.
Hugo, Victor, 16, 251, 252.
Human activity, 102.
Humor, 179, 205, 281, 283;
highest form of, 290, 293.
Hypnoid states, 64.
Fallacy, of accent, 264; of Hypnoidization, 64.
Kant, 77.
Korolenko, 288.
Laughter, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 25,
26, 53, 68, 69, 71, 73, 77,
78, 80, 82, 103, 116, 117,
139, 140, 147, 186, 199, 207,
216, 231, 242, 278, 281; as
moral purge, 140; ascend-
ing, 23; descending, 23;
love and, 145; of triumph,
Law, of contrast, 78; of ma-
terial civilization, 13; of
normal suggestion, 206; of
release of energy, 69; of re-
lief, 77; of spontaneous ac-
tivity, 3; of suggestibility,
205; of suggestion, 200; of
the difficult, 12; of the in-
tellectual element, 13; of
transference, 103; of Weber-
Fechner, 13.
Leibnitz, 48.
Lessing, 286.
Lichtenberg, 239.
Limericks, 27.
Logic, 258, 264, 265, 266, 267,
268.
Love, 141, 145, 287, 291, 292;
and laughter, 145.
Lucian, 31, 32, 112, 113, 114.
Lucretius, 67.
Ludicrous, the, 15, 39, 53, 69,
78, 82, 86, 102, 103, 109,
110, 115, 116, 172, 176, 186,
188, 200, 201, 203, 206, 215,
224, 225, 229, 232, 242, 249,
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