The philosophy of laughter and smiling.

  • Vasey, George.
Date:
1877
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Credit: The philosophy of laughter and smiling. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the aid of the external senses—sight, smell, and taste. They shun danger, fight for their lives, and strive to overcome every obstacle which interferes with their comfort or well-heing. These are the principal manifestations of the individual instinct of self-preservatio7i. At certain definite periods the sexual instinct prompts them to the performance of its appropriate function. These two important attributes constitute the sum total of the animal instincts. All their various actions have a more or less definite relation to these two instincts. We now come to a consideration of the instincts of the human being—the superior animal. What are these instincts % and how many 1 We have given these questions a patient and careful examination, and the results is.