[258] The opening scene of Le Médecin malgré lui shows that Molière had observed this quaint form of wifely loyalty.
[259] Sylvie and Bruno, Part II., p. 132.
[260] Hence Addison’s remark (Spectator, No. 35) that humour should always be under the check of reason seems, in what one is tempted to call a characteristic way, to miss the mark.
[261] See, for example, Höffding, Outlines of Psychology, pp. 294, 295.
[262] Quoted by Dugas, op. cit., p. 98. Flaubert here indicates, perhaps, one great limiting condition of the growth of the composite sentiment of humour.
[263] Philebus, Jowett’s translation, iv., p. 94 ff.
[264] One of the best recent discussions of this subject will be found in the work of A. Lehmann, already referred to; see pp. 247–251 and 259.
[265] Cf. above, p. 70.
[266] Op. cit., p. 95.
[267] For the whole passage, written perhaps with an unconscious reminiscence of the Rousseau period, see the Kritik of Judgment, Dr. Bernard’s translation, p. 227.