...mind, is merely the expression of the feeling of the ludicrous, to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or our own former infirmity." There can be little doubt, I think, that the object which excites laughter,...

...laughter, concludes thus : * The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising froEi some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,...

...emotion, as pity. Hobbes has given a theory to the effect that laughter is 'a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' This evidently suits a certain number of cases, especially the laugh of ridicule, derision,...

...may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,...

...laughter to social rivalry. The passion of laughter, he sensed, was nothing more than the proclaiming of "some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others" or with our own one-time lowly position. ' In the Hobbesian jungle of our contemporary world, ethnic humor's primary...

...after 6.31). And Hobbes concurs that our laughter is "nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or our own formerly" (Human Nature). When the bus had pulled in to park near the caves of Ellora, the...

...overcome danger, exactly the laughter this produces. This is closely akin to Hobbes's laughter, that "sudden glory arising from some sudden conception...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (Human Nature, in English Works, vol. 4, p. 46). 39. In Kroll's "Discourse and Power," he...

...we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,...

...Hobbes, whose definition predominated in Baudelaire's time: "the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."'7 The passion has no name but is related to pride; in Leviathan it is a sign of pusillanimity,...

...the first proponent of a superiority theory, defined laughter as " a sudden glory arising from some conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly" (McGhee, 1979, p. 5). Anthropologie studies point to the inherently aggressive nature of...