LAUGHTER

AN ESSAY ON THE MEANING

OF THE COMIC

BY

HENRI BERGSON

MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE
PROFESSOR AT THE COLLÈGE DE FRANCE

AUTHORISED TRANSLATION

BY

CLOUDESLEY BRERETON

L. Ès L. (PARIs), M.A. (Cantab.); AND

FRED ROTHWELL

B.A. (LONDON)

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1914

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P5 B5

COPYRIGHT, 1911,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1911. Reprinted March, 1912; January, 1913: June, 1914.

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