21. HUMOUR

Humour - like mathematics - may be pure or applied. Pure humour, which has no other end than to amuse is an excellent remedy for tired minds. Applied humour, to my way of thinking, is the more important branch of the subject. It is a tool by the use of which injustice; hypocrisy, tyranny, and foolishness can be laughed into disrepute. It is a tool to whose use writers like Voltaire dedicated some of the comic writing in literature.