ridiculous," and didn't have the positive connotations(隐含意义)that“sense of humor" has
oday. Back then,what was ridiculous was what invited ridicule(讥笑).Funniness and cruelty
went hand in hand.Of course,they still do a lot of arm-in-arm walking in our day as well.
Lincoln’s humor was very different because,for one thing,it was actually "humor"as what
the word meant in his time. We don't make the distinction between "wit(风趣)”and "humor”
anymore; but in the nineteenth century people did.Wit was unpleasant and offensive while
humor was pleasant and sympathetic.It’s。the difference we note now when we distinguish
between "laughing with”and“laughing at.”Lincoln was much more about "laughing with”than
"laughing at.”And when“laughing at,”it was often himself he was teasing.
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates,when Douglas accused Lincoln of being two-faced,
Lincoln replied,referencing his plain looking,“Honestly,if I were two-faced,would I be
showing you this one?”And,in a way,Lincoln's face itself tells us much about his sense of
humor.
You can comb through thousands of photographs of politicians,soldiers,and the like from
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