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Color (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠beautiful only when pure — and if, as Euler held, colours are regular vibrations of the aether perceived as form, they would be beauties in their own right.

Color (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠pheasants, crustacea and insects touches only the surface and serves no internal function, as if designed purely for our eyes — eloquently pleading that nature made beauty for us.

Color (n.) are ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not properties of bodies but modifications of the sense of sight — contingent effects of a particular organization, unlike space.

Color (n.) blindness ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠amid the sharpest sight — and tone-deafness amid the keenest hearing — suggests that colour and tone are not mere sense-impressions but a judging of form.

Color (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠tone are nature's language with a higher meaning: the lily's white disposes us to innocence, and red through violet to sublimity, courage, candour, amiability, modesty, constancy, tenderness.

Color (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a cone must be given in experience, though its shape can be made intuitive without any empirical help — the line between what can and cannot be constructed.