Bédier, Jos., 262 _note_, 263 _note_, 264, 270 _note_, 312 _note_. Belittling of idea, as cause of laughter, 9. Benevolent, mirthfulness as, 417. Bergk, Th., 346, 360 _note_, 381. Bergson, H., 7, 8 _note_, 104, 114, 140 _note_, 348 _note_, 367 _note_, 374, 413 _note_. Bonwick, Jas., 224, 243, 250. Born, Bertran de, 263. Bosanquet, B., 6 _note_. Bridgman, Laura, 170. Browne, Thomas, 390. Brutal laughter, 89, 97, 143, 231–233, 315, 381. “Bulls,” 111, 313. Bülow, H. von, 330 _note_. Burchell, W. J., 239. Burton, R. F., 229, 245, 253. — Robert, 34, 314. Butler, Samuel, 115. Butt, of wit, 355. Buyer and seller, laughter between, 270. Campbell, Harry, 35 _note_. Capes, B., 325 _note_. Carlyle, T., 36, 49, 299, 390, 400, 404 416. Carroll, Lewis, 304, 386. Carus, Paul, 12 _note_. Cervantes, S. M. de, 282, 310, 314, 389. Champneys, F. H., 165. Character, the laughable in, 133, 307, 315, 321; incongruity between circumstances and, 318, 369; interest in, 318, 358; presentation of, in comedy, 357–370. {434} Chaucer, G., 30 _note_. Chesterfield, Earl of, 1. Child, development of laughter in (Chapter VII.); first laughter of triumph, 83, 198, 200, 204, 210; sayings of, as laughable, 106; degradation theory applied to laughter of, 123, 124, 137; beginnings of smile and laugh in, 164–168, 188; spontaneous laughter of, 187, 207; extension of field of laughable, for, 191, 192; growth of self-feeling in laughter of, 192, 203, 205; growing complication of laughter of, 192, 193; early laughter of joy, 194–198; early laughter of play, 194, 198–207, 211, 212; early laughter of teasing, 201–203; early defiance of order, 203, 204, 211, 213; first roguish laughter, 205, 206; early appreciation of the laughable, 207–217; first laughter at sounds, 209–212; early feeling of propriety, 211–215. Choral laughter, 247, 258, 295; decline of, 429. Cibber, Colley, 292 _note_. Cicero, 384. Class, differentiation of, 247, 258, 259; changes in, as laughable, 287. Clergy, laughter at the, 109, 262, 267, 294, 346; laughter of the, 283. Coleridge, S. T., 364, 374 _note_. Collier, Jeremy, 411. Combat, playful, as origin of laughter of tickling, 179–181. Comedy (Chapter XI.), Greek, 264, 291, 346, 353, 361, 389 (see also Aristophanes); of the Restoration, 283, 287, 370–373, 383; Roman, 291, 376 (see also Plautus, Terence); conditions of the rise of, 347; elements of primitive laughter in, 348–357, 379; of Incident, 357; of Manners, 357, 370–373, 376; of Character, 357–370; Elizabethan, 361; point of view of, 368–377, 410; mood addressed by, 370, 373, 375, 377, 412; attitude of, towards morality, 372–377, 411; limits to, 377; approach to point of view of, in fiction, 378; satirical element in, 381; humour in, 387; corrective function of, 411–414; Modern, 413. Comic art, rudiments of, in savage life, 250. — the, distinguished from the laughable, 86. Common-sense. See Point of View. Concept, function of the, in laughter, 7, 13, 130–133, 135.