This also is evident from III.
xxxix., and from the definitions of baseness and injustice in IV.
xxxvii.

note.
Note .-- Between derision (which I have in Coroll.

I.stated to be bad) and laughter I recognize a great difference.

For laughter, as also jocularity, is merely pleasure; therefore, so long as it be not excessive, it is in itself good (IV.

xli.).
Assuredly nothing forbids man to enjoy himself, save grim and gloomy superstition.