Congreve, W., 357, 370, 372, 411. Conservative force of laughter, 257, 261. See Progress. Contagiousness of laughter, 42, 186, 255. _Conte_, the mediæval, 34, 86, 91, 262, 267, 284, 292, 311, 346, 373. Contempt, laughter of, 78, 83, 89, 97, 118, 142, 205, 234, 299, 320, 380. Contests, laughter in, 78, 83; laughter at the sight of, 117; of the sexes, see Woman, Laughter of Man and. Contrariety, theory of. See Incongruity. Contrast, effect of, in comic characters, 365. Coquelin, B. C., aîné, 109. — cadet, 86 _note_. Corrective function of laughter. See Value of Laughter. Counteractives of laughter, 84, 88, 90, 93, 96, 98, 101, 102, 111. Courdaveaux, V., 130 _note_. Courthope, W., 361 _note_. Cruickshank, B., 225, 226, 235. Culture, gradations of, 284; spread of, 286, 288. Curtius, Ernst, 277 _note_. Custom, effect of, on laughter, 84, 294, 318. Customary, the, as standard in comedy, 375–377. Cynicism in modern laughter, 431. Dante, Alighieri, 30, 425. Darwin, C., 26, 38, 40, 57, 60, 63, 70, 71, 156, 159, 162, 163, 164, 169, 170, 171, 172, 177, 224, 227, 280. Daudet, A., 378. David, Mrs. F. W. E., 229. Deformity, as laughable, 89, 231. — moral. See Vice. Degradation, theory of (moral theory), 119–125, 128, 137, 153. Dennett, R. E., 251. Descartes, R., 70. Descending incongruity, 137. Deschamps, E., 222 _note_. {435} Detachment in humorous observation, 331, 337, 407–409. Dickens, C., 158, 329, 388. Difference, judgment of, 15 _note_. Dignity, loss of, as laughable, 99, 119–125, 128, 136, 213, 214, 266. Discomfiture, the sight of, as laughable, 117. Disguise, in comedy, 349, 369. Disorder, as laughable, 94, 266, 342; in comedy, 371. Dog, the. See Animals. Doran, John, 291. Dugas, L., 47 _note_, 130 _note_, 149 _note_, 306 _note_, 400 _note_, 413 _note_. Edgeworth, R. L. and M., 313 _note_. Education, laughter in, 426. Egede, Hans, 223 _note_, 249. Egyptians, 264, 265. Eliot, George, 109, 271, 298, 299, 385 _note_, 386 _note_, 389. Ellis, W., 224, 235, 237. Embarrassment, relief from, producing laughter, 228, 238. Emotions, James’ theory of, 40; development of, 189; fusion of, 308–310. Epicureans, 397. Erskine, J. E., 224, 250. Estimable, the, in the laughable, 306, 310, 317. Evolutional utility of laughter, 408, 431. Excellence, laughter as an, 3, 416, 422, 423. Expectation, annulled, as cause of laughter, 9, 12, 18, 64, 125, 126–130. _Fabliau_. See _Conte_. Fanciful world of comedy, 372, 373, 377. Fantastic ideas, as laughable, 88. Fashion, definition of, 273; movements of, 273; as restrained by custom, 275; as laughable, 276–279. Father and child, relation of, in comedy, 265, 353, 361. Fear, relief from nascent, as element in tickling, 63; laughter as reaction from, 65, 176, 199; as inhibitory of laughter, 88. Feeling tone, of sensations of tickling, 54; of humour, 305, 310; of comic mood, 370, 376.