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Text Appearing Before Image: The Stentorian Laugli of the Stronger Sex. Text Appearing After Image: The Superlative Laugh, or Highest Degree of Laughter. Philosophy of Laughter and Smiling. 113 CHAPTER XXIII. Further illustrations of the distinction between alaugh and a smile. 1. The thoughtful and curious readermay naturally ask—Are there any definiteand precise criteria by which we can at oncetruly distinguish a smile from a laugh ? 2. We answer— Most assuredly thereare/ and we shall now endeavour to pointthem out. 3. Whatever may be the exciting causeof laughter, the paroxysm comes on sud-denly, shaking the whole bodily frame, par-ticularly the lungs, the diaphragm, and pec-toral muscles. 114 The Philosophy of 4. It interrupts the breathing for a longeror shorter period, according to the degree ofits intensity, and then ceases as suddenly asit commenced. 5. The function of laughter can only beproperly compared to such functions ascoughing, hiccoughing, or sneezing, whichare all involuntary convulsions, caused bydisorder of the functions of the organswhich are implicated. 6. S
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