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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
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One
sight
more,
and
we
have
done.
I
had
something
to
say,
had
time
permitted,
on
the
ludicrous
element
which
appears
here
and
there
in
nature.
There
are
animals,
like
monkeys
and
crabs,
which
seem
made
to
be
laughed
at;
by
those
at
least
who
possess
that
most
indefinable
of
faculties,
the
sense
of
the
ridiculous.
As
long
as
man
possesses
muscles
especially
formed
to
enable
him
to
laugh,
we
have
no
right
to
suppose
(with
some)
that
laughter
is
an
accident
of
our
fallen
nature;
or
to
find
(with
others)
the
primary
cause
of
the
ridiculous
in
the
perception
of
unfitness
or
disharmony.
And
yet
we
shrink
(whether
rightly
or
wrongly,
we
can
hardly
tell)
from
attributing
a
sense
of
the
ludicrous
to
the
Creator
of
these
forms.
It
may
be
a
weakness
on
my
part;
at
least
I
will
hope
it
is
a
reverent
one:
but
till
we
can
find
something
corresponding
to
what
we
conceive
of
the
Divine
Mind
in
any
class
of
phenomena,
it
is
perhaps
better
not
to
talk
about
them
at
all,
but
observe
a
stoic
“epoche,”
waiting
for
more
light,
and
yet
confessing
that
our
own
laughter
is
uncontrollable,
and
therefore
we
hope
not
unworthy
of
us,
at
many
a
strange
creature
and
strange
doing
which
we
meet,
from
the
highest
ape
to
the
lowest
polype.
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