From: The Dial, Vol. III, No. III (Jan. 1843)
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Published: E. P. Peabody 1843 Boston
A CORRESPONDENT has called our attention to the following passage in Swedenborg’s Arcana, as containing an anticipation of Goethe’s Theory of Color. The Goethenn idea, it will be remembered, is that there is but one primary, namely, white light, and the negative darkness, and that color is the mixture of these two. In the Arcana Coelestia, sect. 1042, Swedenborg writes: “In order to the existence of color, there must needs be some substance darkish and brightish, or black and white, on which, when the rays of light from the sun fall, according to the various temperature of the dark and bright, or black and white, from the modification of the influent rays of light, there exist colors, some of which take more or less from the darkish and black, some more or less from the brightish and white, and hence arises their diversity.”
ERRATUM.
In the Dial for October, p. 213. I. 32, for [Confessions of the Moderator,] read [Confessions of a witness to the Moderator.]
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