I have known men of education to whom its effect was intolerable if they chanced to see a person dressed in a scarlet cloak on a grey, cloudy day. A yellow-red cloth disturbs and enrages animals. It produces an extreme excitement, and still acts thus when somewhat darkened. In looking steadfastly at a perfectly yellow-red surface, the colour seems actually to penetrate the organ. Among savage nations the inclination for it has been universally remarkedy and when children^ left to themselves, begin to use tints, they never spare vermilion and minium. The active side is here in its highest energy, and it is not to be wondered at that impetuous, robust, uneducated men, should be especially pleased with this colour. The agreeable, cheerful sensation which red-yellow excites increases to an intolerably powerful impression in bright yellow-red.

To this impression the yellow hats of bankrupts and the yellow circles on the mantles of Jews, may have owed their origin.Īs pure yellow passes very easily to red-yellow, so the deepening of this last to yellow-red is not to be arrested. By a slight and scarcely perceptible change, the beautiful impression of fire and gold is transformed into one not undeserving the epithet foul and the colour of honour and joy reversed to that of ignominy and aversion.

When a yellow colour is communicated to dull and coarse surfaces^ such as common cloth, felt, or the like, on which it does not appear with full energy, the disagreeable effect alluded to is apparent. Thus, the colour of sulphur, which inclines to green, has a something unpleasant in it. State is agreeable and gladdening, and in its utmost power is serene and noble, it is, on the other hand, extremely liable to contamination, and produces a very disagreeable effect if it is sullied, or in some degree tends to the minus side. In its highest purity it always carries with it the nature of brightness, and has a serene, gay, softly exciting character. How the chemical yellow develops itself in and upon the white, has been circumstantially described in its proper place. In prismatic experiments it extends itself alone and widely in the light space, and while the two poles remain separated from each other, before it mixes with blue to produce green it is to be seen in its utmost purity and beauty. It appears on the slightest mitigation of light, whether by semi-transparent mediums or faint reflection from white surfaces.

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