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fol. 46v	 'Truths of Colour' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch V)   (3.     )
      
      
      
      
     #51#Colour dependent on <grouping> contrast   .  	
      
      
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     It would be a white oak - or a pink oak - or a republican oak - but an oak still  .
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fol. 47r  	 'Truths of Colour' (Pt II, Sn I, Ch V)   (3.158-59)
      
      
      
     {And} That colour is indeed a most unimportant characteristic of objects , .
     will be evident on the slightest consideration -    The colour of plants is
     constantly changing with the season - {the colour of everything} & with the quality of
     light falling on it -
     so <that> . but the nature & essence of the thing is independent of
 5   these chang{e}s  -  An oak is an oak -  whether its leaves be green with
     spring - or red with winter - and <if a botanist> a dahlia is a dahlia
     whether it be yellow or crimson - and if some monster hunting botanist
     should ever frighten the flower blue dung & soap suds - still
     it will be a dahlia -  But let one curve of the petal - one groove of
10   the stamen - be wanting  . & the flower ceases to be the same -   Let
     the <*.*>char<acter> {roughness} of the bark - or the angles of the boughs - be
     smoothed
     or diminished - & the oak ceases to be an oak .  But let it retain
     its inward structure & outward form - and it<s> is an oak still - though
     its leaves grew {white . or} - or pink - or <black> - or blue - or tricolor .   So again -
15   colour is hardly ever <*.*>even a possible distinction between two objects
     of the same species  -   Two trees - of the same kind - at the same
     season. - of the same age - are <the> ^ {of absolutely the} same colour <to> but they
     are
     not {of} the same form . nor anything like it   -     There can be no difference
     in the colour of two pieces of rock broken from the same place -
20   but it is impossible they should be of the same form .     So that
     form is not only the chief characteristic of species - but the only
     characterist<y>ic of individuals of a species .
      

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