[475] Early History of Mankind, second edition, 1870, p. 45. See the analogous behaviour of the Dakotas in Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions, p. 257.
[476] See Sittl, p. 99.
[477] Die Völker des östlichen Asien, vol. iii, p. 222.
[478] Ernste Spiele, p. 10.
[479] The Human Mind, vol. ii, p. 148. Psychologie des sentiments, p. 342.
[480] See Hall and Allin, op. cit. The remark of a little girl who danced about the grave of her friend and rejoiced thus, “How glad I am that she is dead and that I’m alive!” is in the same line.
[481] In my Einleitung in die Esthetic I have tried to show how the feeling of superiority is gradually supplanted by inner imitation. In the humorous contemplation of inferiority Erdmann’s “maliciousness” need have no place, and we can conceive of a God as laughing in this way. As Keller’s poem has it, “Der Herr, der durch die Wandlung geht, Er lächelt auf dem Wege.”
[482] The fact that the humorous temperament is so much more rare in women artists than in men supports the theory of its involving the fighting impulse. (See Mario Pilo, La psychologie du beau et de l’art, Paris, 1895, p. 145.)
[483] G. H. Schneider, Der Menschliche Wille, Berlin, 1882, p. 62.
[484] Semon, Im Australischen Busch, pp. 168, 197.