The Play of Man

by Karl Groos

[339] Ernest Lindley, loc. cit., p. 455.

[340] A. Seidel, Geschichten und Lieder der Africaner, Berlin, 1896, pp. 176, 309. Similar riddles used for the amusement of children are given by Tylor. Op. cit., vol. i, p. 91. Words used in a double or multiple sense (homonyms) are particularly effective.

[341] Annoyance over one’s own enjoyment is, of course, not play.

[342] The Psychology of Tickling, Laughing, and the Comic. Amer. Jour. of Psychol., vol ix.

[343] See Ribot, Psychologie des sentiments, p. 64.

[344] Principles of Psychology, vol. ii, p. 590.

[345] Kuno Fischer, Arthur Schopenhauer, Heidelberg, 1893, p. 125.

[346] Ribot, La Psychologie des sentiments, p. 64.

[347] See Hubert Rotteken’s interesting article, Ueber ästhetische Kritik bei Dichtungen (Beilage zur Allgem. Zeit., 1897, Nos. 114, 115). Volkelt (Aesthetic des Tragischen, p. 389) seems to me to undervalue this point.

[348] Max Reischle, Das Spielen der Kinder in seinem Erziehungswerth, Göttingen, 1897, p. 17.