Tragedy is the higher art, as attaining its end more perfectly.
For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference, is not an organic part of the whole.
because it was not at first treated seriously.
The successive changes through which Tragedy passed, and the authors of these changes, are well known, whereas Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
Comedy is, as we have said, an imitation of characters of a lower type, not, however, in the full sense of the word bad, the Ludicrous being merely a subdivision of the ugly. It consists in some defect or ugliness which is not painful or destructive
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
