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Rh and is destroyed: for it ceases to subsist as a whole.

"II. Quality is closely united with substance; not, however, as an intimate cause of it, nor consisting in motion; but common: not a genus, yet appertaining to one. It is independent of conjunction and disjunction; not the cause of them, not itself endued with qualities.

"Twenty-four are enumerated. Seventeen only are, indeed, specified in Kanāda's aphorisms; but the rest are understood.

"1. Colour. It is a peculiar quality to be apprehended only by sight; and abides in three substances; earth, water, and light. It is a characteristic quality of the last; and, in that, is white and resplended. In water it is white, but without lustre. In the primary atoms of both it is perpetual; in their products, not so. In earth it is variable; and seven colours are distinguished: viz. white, yellow, green, red, black, tawny (or orange) and variegated. The varieties of these seven colours are many, unenumerated. The six simple colours occur in the atoms of the earth;