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Distinction are call'd True or Genuine. This question I say seems to me of Importance, upon this Account , that it being commonly Granted, (or however, eafie enough to be Prov'd ) that Emphatical Colours are Light it felf Modify'd by Refractions chiefly, with a concurrence sometimes of Reflections , and perhaps some other Accidents depending on these two ; if these Emphatical Colours be resolv'dto Be Genuine, it will seem consequent , that Colours, or at least divers of them, are but Diversify'd Light, and not such Real and Inherent qualities as they are commonly thought to be. --. Now since we are wont to esteem
the Echoes and other Sounds of Bodies, to be True Sounds , all their Odours to be True Odours , and ( to be short ) since we sndge other Sensible Qualities to be True ones, because they are the proper Objects os some or other of our Senfes , I see not why Emphatical Colours, being the proper and peculiar Objects of the Organ of Sight, and capable to Affect it as Truly and as Powerfully as other Colours, should be reputed but lmaginaryones. And if we have ( which perchance you 'l
allow) formerly evine'd Colour, (when the
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