HOW—WHAT—WHY!
What is colour? The three primary colours, we say, are red, blue and yellow. In addition to these, are the secondary, tertiary and mingled colours. But, in the first place, what is colour? Colour is, as doubtless you have been taught, a gift of light. In sunlight all colours are in" the form of rays. When an object has a great mass or red or blue or yellow rays in (or on) its substance we see those rays—or colours—alone. When they have, say, fifty per cent, of yellow and fifty per cent, of blue, we call that colour (or those rays) "green"—and so on. But place any substance in dead dark-ness—-no colour is seen. For the simple reason that light cannot reach it to give it its supply of rays. Colour therefore, is what our eyes see of light, in its various ordered forms.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 16 July 1928, Page 2
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