LAUGHTER.
A NEW THEORY.
l Tvmes , — i Sydney Sun' Special Cables. -(Received Last Night* 6.15 o'clock.) LONDON, Sept., 13.
In a paper read before the British Medical Association, Dr McDougall, of the Oxford University, submitted a new theory in respect to laughter. Be argued that laughter was primarily and fundamentally an antitode of sympathy. {Sympathetic tendencies were, he said, of first importance to • -social life. ■ It would be a serious dis-
advantage if each man had to suffer all those minor pains from which his fellows ailed. The cumulative «£ect of many slight pains would be to seriously lower vitality. Hence, eo-
cial habits required an Antidote, or preventative. There wer& sympathetic pains, and nature had therefore treated ]aughter s as a protective rejection against them. <
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19130915.2.18.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 September 1913, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
126LAUGHTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 September 1913, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in