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Show QUALITIES OF WIT AND HUMOR. Alike, Yet In Many Ways Fundamentally Fundament-ally Different. Wit find humor aro bucIi elemental fundamental things that It has always been found difficult to nnnlyzo them, says a writer In Tho Atlantic. Upon sonio points, however, thoso who have essayed this puzzling task agree, for they all hold that wit Is an Intellectual, Intel-lectual, humor nn emotional, quality; that wit 1b a perception of resemblance, resem-blance, and humor n perception of contrast, of discrepancy, of Incongruity. Incongru-ity. The Incongruity Is that which arises between tho Idenl and tho fact, between theory nnd practice, between promise and performance; and perhaps per-haps It might ho added thnt It Is always al-ways or almost always a mornl Incongruity. In-congruity. In tho enso both of wit and humor there Is also n pleasurable surprise, a gentle shock, which accompanies ac-companies our perception of tho hitherto hith-erto unsuspected rescmblnnco or incongruity. in-congruity. A Now England farmor was onco describing In tho presence pres-ence of a very humane person tho grent ago and debility of a horso that he formerly owned and used. "You ought to hnvo killed him," Interrupted Interrupt-ed tho humnno porson Indignantly. "Well," drawled tho farmer "wo did almost." |