 ... a small one; the ideas and feelings suggested are not numerous and massive enough to carry off the nervous energy to be expended. The excess must therefore discharge itself in some other direction; and in the way already explained, there results an...  The Physician and Surgeon - Page 2121890Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 522 pages
...therefore discharge itself in some other direction ; and in the way already explained, there results an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes...producing the half-convulsive actions we term laughter. This explanation is quite in harmony with the fact, that when, amongst a number of persons who are... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 388 pages
...therefore discharge itself in some other direction ; and in the way already explained, there results an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes...producing the halfconvulsive actions we term laughter. This explanation is in harmony with the fact, that when, among several persons who witness the same... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 400 pages
...therefore discharge itself in some other direction; and in the way already explained, there results an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes...producing the halfconvulsive actions we term laughter. This explanation ie in harmony with the fact, that when, among several persons who witness the same... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 494 pages
...therefore discharge itself in some other direction ; and in the way already explained, there results an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes...muscles, producing the half-convulsive actions we terra laughter. This explanation is in harmony with the fact, that when, among several persons who... | |
 | 1873 - 800 pages
...and nervous systems. The excess of nervous energy produced by pleasure and enjoyment, passing on by an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes of the muscles, finds a vent in joyous merriment, dancing, clapping the hands, and, above all, in emissions of sound... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1872 - 404 pages
...in its " flow." ..." The excess must discharge itself in some " other direction, and there results an efflux through the " motor nerves to various classes of the muscles, pro" ducing the half-convulsive actions we term laughter." An observation, bearing on this point, was... | |
 | Robert Mitchell (pastor at Manchester.) - 1879 - 192 pages
...when we have read all that Darwin can say about laughter, and all that Herbert Spencer can say about " an efflux through the motor nerves to various classes of the muscles," and all that Professor Bain has said about the physical and mental causes of laughter, we still find... | |
 | James McCosh - 1880 - 296 pages
...its flow." " The excess must discharge itself in some other direction, and there results an afflux through the motor nerves to various classes of the...producing the half-convulsive actions we term laughter." Univ. Prog. Every one perceives that there is a difference between wit and humor. Can the difference... | |
 | 1890 - 632 pages
...consists in a perception of incongruity, or rather in the perception of the incongruous subsumptiou underlying the necessary factors of the joke. Just...author of " The Origin of Species," has he not confused gleef ulness and joy ? When the angels brought " glad tidings of great joy " it is not recorded that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 412 pages
...in its " flow." ..." The excess must discharge itself in some " other direction, and there results an efflux through the " motor nerves to various classes of the muscles, pro" ducing the half-convulsive actions we term laughter." An observation, bearing on this point, was... | |
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