Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.
The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are aected in the _st place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simpli_d, being reduced to four andsoon to two colours; _ally a grey monochrome stage is reached, although the pathological colour is never identi_ble with any normal one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions __he loss of nervous substance results not only in a de_iency of certain qualities, but in the change to a less dierentiated and more primitive structure_.
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The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are aected in the _st place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simpli_d, being reduced to four andsoon to two colours; _ally a grey monochrome stage is reached, although the pathological colour is never identi_ble with any normal one. Thus in central as in peripheral lesions __he loss of nervous substance results not only in a de_iency of certain qualities, but in the change to a less dierentiated and more primitive structure_.
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