Modern life, decline of choral laughter in, [427]; seriousness of, [428] ff.; growth of individual laughter in, [432].

Molière, J. B. P., [114], [272], [288], [303] note, [307], [315], [348], [349], [350], [351], [353], [357], [359], [364]–370, [373]–378.

Mommsen, Th., [353] note, [361] note.

Mono-ideism in comic characters, [366].

Montaigne, M. E. de, [342].

Mood, the ticklish, [62]; of humour, [304]; addressed by comedy, [370], [373], [375], [377]; addressed by fiction, [379], [380].

Moore, Mrs. K. C., [165], [188].

Moral deformity. See Vice.

— sensitiveness, as inhibitory of laughter, [93], [101], [102].

— theory. See Degradation.