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ATMOSPHERE.
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CHAPTEE II.
ATMOSPHEEE.
A PRACTICAL BELIEF IN THE EXISTENCE AND INFLUENCE OF ATMOSPHERE
NECESSARY TO PERCEPTION—ITS DIFFERENT DENSITIES AND THEIR EFFECTS
ON LOCAL COLOUR—THE ATMOSPHERE A VEIL—ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE BLINDS
THE STUDENT'S PERCEPTION—EXTREMES OF DENSITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE—
THE COLOUR OF THE ATMOSPHERE CHANGED BY THE SUN'S LIGHT, ALSO BY
SMOKE AND FOG—THE EFFECT OF SUNSET—EVENING HAZE—NOT ALL EFFECTS
FIT FOR IMITATION—AN ARTIFICIAL SCALE OF COLOURING NECESSARY TO
BRILLIANCY.
We can never folly apprehend or perceive the colouring
of Nature till we are thoroughly and practically convinced
of the all-pervading and perpetual though changeful
presence of the atmosphere, and its effect on the local
colour of all objects, but especially of those remote from
the eye. This is particularly the case with the atmosphere
of the British Isles, because it is more charged with hu-
midity, and consequently more dense, than that of the
continent. In Italy and the East, where this excessive
moisture is unknown, distant objects appear nearly as
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CHAPTEE II.
ATMOSPHEEE.
A PRACTICAL BELIEF IN THE EXISTENCE AND INFLUENCE OF ATMOSPHERE
NECESSARY TO PERCEPTION—ITS DIFFERENT DENSITIES AND THEIR EFFECTS
ON LOCAL COLOUR—THE ATMOSPHERE A VEIL—ABSTRACT KNOWLEDGE BLINDS
THE STUDENT'S PERCEPTION—EXTREMES OF DENSITY IN THE ATMOSPHERE—
THE COLOUR OF THE ATMOSPHERE CHANGED BY THE SUN'S LIGHT, ALSO BY
SMOKE AND FOG—THE EFFECT OF SUNSET—EVENING HAZE—NOT ALL EFFECTS
FIT FOR IMITATION—AN ARTIFICIAL SCALE OF COLOURING NECESSARY TO
BRILLIANCY.
We can never folly apprehend or perceive the colouring
of Nature till we are thoroughly and practically convinced
of the all-pervading and perpetual though changeful
presence of the atmosphere, and its effect on the local
colour of all objects, but especially of those remote from
the eye. This is particularly the case with the atmosphere
of the British Isles, because it is more charged with hu-
midity, and consequently more dense, than that of the
continent. In Italy and the East, where this excessive
moisture is unknown, distant objects appear nearly as
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