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In Short, Intelligence, Considered In What Seems To Be Its Original Feature, Is The Faculty Of Manufacturing Artificial Objects, Especially Tools To Make Tools, And Of Indefinitely Varying The Manufacture.

On The Other Hand, The Pleasure Caused By Laughter, Even On The Stage, Is Not An Unadulterated Enjoyment; It Is Not A Pleasure That Is Exclusively Esthetic Or Altogether Disinterested. It Always Implies A Secret Or Unconscious Intent, If Not Of Each One Of Us, At All Events Of Society As A Whole. In Laughter We Always Find An Unavowed Intention To Humiliate, And Consequently To Correct Our Neighbour, If Not In His Will, At Least In His Deed.

The Idea Of The Future, Pregnant With An Infinity Of Possibilities, Is Thus More Fruitful Than The Future Itself, And This Is Why We Find More Charm In Hope Than In Possession, In Dreams Than In Reality.

The Only Cure For Vanity Is Laughter. And The Only Fault That's Laughable Is Vanity.

However Spontaneous It Seems, Laughter Always Implies A Kind Of Secret Freemasonry, Or Even Complicity, With Other Laughers, Real Or Imaginary.