32. Professor James says there are three classic stages in the career of a theory: “First, it is attacked as absurd; then admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim to be its discoverers.”

33. “Nature’s most lively hues are bathed in lilac grays. Spread all about us, yet visible only to the fine perception of the colorist, is this gray quality by which he appeals. Not he whose pictures abound in ‘couleurs voyantes,’ but he who preserves in his work all the ‘gris colorés’ is the good colorist.”

Translation from J. F. Rafaelli, in Annales Politiques & Litteraires.

34. See Color Blindness in Glossary.