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Chapter XIII.
COLOURS AND THEIR MEANING.
Before we can intelligently study the detail of
these various bodies, we must familiarize our-
selves with the general meaning of the various
shades of colour in them, as indicated in our
frontispiece. It will be realised that almost
infinite variety is possible in their combination.
I am endeavouring to give, as nearly as possible,
the exact shade which expresses the unmixed
emotion whose name is attached to it; but
human emotions are hardly ever unmixed, and
so we have constantly to classify or to analyse
indeterminate hues in the formation of which
many factors have played their part.
Anger, for example, is represented by scarlet,
and love by crimson and rose; but both anger
and love are often deeply tinged with selfishness,
and just so far as that is the case will the purity
of their respective colours be dimmed by the
hard brown-grey which is so characteristic of
this vice. Or again, either of them may be
COLOURS AND THEIR MEANING.
Before we can intelligently study the detail of
these various bodies, we must familiarize our-
selves with the general meaning of the various
shades of colour in them, as indicated in our
frontispiece. It will be realised that almost
infinite variety is possible in their combination.
I am endeavouring to give, as nearly as possible,
the exact shade which expresses the unmixed
emotion whose name is attached to it; but
human emotions are hardly ever unmixed, and
so we have constantly to classify or to analyse
indeterminate hues in the formation of which
many factors have played their part.
Anger, for example, is represented by scarlet,
and love by crimson and rose; but both anger
and love are often deeply tinged with selfishness,
and just so far as that is the case will the purity
of their respective colours be dimmed by the
hard brown-grey which is so characteristic of
this vice. Or again, either of them may be