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Show THE VALUE OF LAUGHTER. One of the Most Potent Forees With Which to Combat Evil. Is laughtor Immoral? That Is a very Important objection urged against comedy from generation to generation. It Is not only not Immoral, but It Is tho preservation of morals to cultivate by uso a faculty for all sorta of laughter. It Is the hallucination hallucina-tion of provalont evil which drives men to despair. Now, ovll always seams to be prevalont when you scrutinize scru-tinize it, for scrutiny Involves confined con-fined attention to what Ilea Immediately Immediate-ly under the lens In the fooused light Doing wherever we soe, wo surmise, nay affirm, It to bo everywhere. every-where. But wore It really everywhere you and I could not be here to express ex-press such an opinion. Cloarly tbe thing to do then is to belittle tho evil by fair means and foul, to nndlgnlfy It and so rob It of Its horrors that wo shall not lose wits or heart Dy laughing laugh-ing at the ell we got rid of the false impression of its omnipotence, we get a little courage and our despair turns a somersault up Into glory from the swinging trapezo of faltb. International Interna-tional Quarterly. |