{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For since all forms of speech flow from mind and manners, ludicrous\r\nexpressions could not be uttered, did they not proceed from ludicrous\r\npractices. For the saying, “It is not a good tree which produces\r\ncorrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_511\" id=\"FNanchor_511\">[511]</a> is\r\nto be applied in this case. For speech is the fruit of the mind. If,\r\nthen, wags are to be ejected from our society, we ourselves must by\r\nno manner of means be allowed to stir up laughter. For it were absurd\r\nto be found imitators of things of which we are prohibited to be\r\nlisteners; and still more absurd for a man to set about making himself\r\na laughing-stock, that is, the butt of insult and derision. For if we\r\ncould not endure to make a ridiculous figure, such as we see some do\r\nin processions, how could we with any propriety bear to have the inner\r\nman made a ridiculous figure of, and that to one’s face? Wherefore we\r\nought never of our own accord to assume a ludicrous character. And how,\r\nthen, can we devote ourselves to being and appearing ridiculous in our\r\nconversation, thereby travestying speech, which is the most precious of\r\nall human endowments? It is therefore disgraceful to set one’s self to\r\ndo this; since the conversation of wags of this description is not fit\r\nfor our ears, inasmuch as by the very expressions used it familiarizes\r\nus with shameful actions.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER V. ON LAUGHTER."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_511","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-387"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"48987efbb51b9d65af3d9d88854f5d29fecccf1b0c9a772b301186801f7a07cb","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18},{"book":"LUK","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke vi. 43","verse":43,"verse_end":43}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_511","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_511","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_511\" id=\"Footnote_511\">[511]</a> Matt. vii. 18; Luke vi. 43.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_511","text_sha256":"f36ceb108a59f005641a3290b2d0bb5529ba0f35637deff57a6b95ad7d17a566","verified":false,"work_id":null}