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.