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Page 76
... green ; b , blue ; ent Colours : 9 , a stimulating effect . Joy and anger 6 , orange ; y , yel increase the power , sorrow and fright low ; r , red ; v , vio- decrease it . An entertaining novel is a will - stimulant ; a prosy text ...
... green ; b , blue ; ent Colours : 9 , a stimulating effect . Joy and anger 6 , orange ; y , yel increase the power , sorrow and fright low ; r , red ; v , vio- decrease it . An entertaining novel is a will - stimulant ; a prosy text ...
Page 92
... green , yellow , black , etc. But in smell we can only speak of cabbage odour , fishy odour , violet odour , and the like . Not only do we have no names for odours , we do not know any reason why different things smell alike . Why ...
... green , yellow , black , etc. But in smell we can only speak of cabbage odour , fishy odour , violet odour , and the like . Not only do we have no names for odours , we do not know any reason why different things smell alike . Why ...
Page 120
... green , blue , or other of the what we have been accustomed to regard as the specific colours . These are the " neutral " colours . With white at one end and black at the other all the neutral colours including the greyish whites , the ...
... green , blue , or other of the what we have been accustomed to regard as the specific colours . These are the " neutral " colours . With white at one end and black at the other all the neutral colours including the greyish whites , the ...
Page 121
... green , blue , and purple . The term " violet " is often used instead of purple , but this is not re- commended . The greys ( Fig . 85 ) and the brightest colours ( Fig . 86 ) are only a few out of the vast number before us . " GRAYISH ...
... green , blue , and purple . The term " violet " is often used instead of purple , but this is not re- commended . The greys ( Fig . 85 ) and the brightest colours ( Fig . 86 ) are only a few out of the vast number before us . " GRAYISH ...
Page 126
... green give all the variations through orange and yellow , but they are all whitish ; they lie along a straight line drawn from red to green , which passes nearer to white than the line from red to yellowish green . To find what are the ...
... green give all the variations through orange and yellow , but they are all whitish ; they lie along a straight line drawn from red to green , which passes nearer to white than the line from red to yellowish green . To find what are the ...
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Page 181 - ... probably never in all their lives received one genuine colour-sensation. The modern religionists of the school of Overbeck are just like people who eat slate-pencil and chalk, and assure everybody that they are nicer and purer than strawberries and plums.
Page 5 - I have noticed in one of my formicaria a subterranean cemetery, where I have seen some ants burying their dead by placing earth above them. One ant was evidently much affected, and tried to exhume the bodies, but the united exertions of the yellow sextons were more than sufficient to neutralise the effort of the disconsolate mourner.