Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . nt exhibition of drollery. There is a perfect agreementbetween the parrot and the clown, and the value that is at-tached to them is the same in both. They are tolerated forthe same reason, viz., the amusement they afford by the con-stant exhibition of something new and startling, and by theirbuffoonery. It is a vulgar taste, identical with that whichgleans the horrible and awful in newspapers, and prefersa lusus natures to what is orderly and beautiful. Those whopatronize clowns are people who have the same traits, but arein t
Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals . nt exhibition of drollery. There is a perfect agreementbetween the parrot and the clown, and the value that is at-tached to them is the same in both. They are tolerated forthe same reason, viz., the amusement they afford by the con-stant exhibition of something new and startling, and by theirbuffoonery. It is a vulgar taste, identical with that whichgleans the horrible and awful in newspapers, and prefersa lusus natures to what is orderly and beautiful. Those whopatronize clowns are people who have the same traits, but arein too high a station, or consider it a little below their dig-nity, to act the part of buffoons. Still the clown, though hemakes a fool of himself, in compliance with the notion thata fool is a rare commodity in a court, has often more influenceover those he amuses than any other man, and treats his mas-ter familiarly and even contemptuously. It is well for him that he can cry out, I say,master, every now and then—for if his master werenot his master in the art he.
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