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 rather excitable question with the haughty Siriusites, and other pure whites, we rather made out that a very slight yellowish was softer to the eyes, and, while not really other than white light, was, in its accommodating way, rather the superior.

It was certainly to be expected that colour, which has such strikingly varied effect physically upon health and growth, should have also its effect mentally in the coloured systems. Indeed the coloured themselves at once admitted, nay, eagerly claimed this distinctive result; only that, while we whites saw but peculiarity, they themselves had in view superiority. Although science had explained, long ago, the superficial, accidental, changeable, and perhaps, in many cases, temporary character of sun colour, yet all this had but little effect upon our coloured friends' lofty theories about themselves. Nevertheless, however, we of the white-light order made an interesting study of their case, which we were the better able to do, seeing that no small number of their worlds had already entered the higher life as well as ourselves. Repeatedly, indeed, had it been experienced, that mental peculiarity from colour, amounting, in the deeper hues, even to decided eccentricity, was not always much of an obstacle to those scientific attainments through which worlds were passed into the higher life. And indeed it was in this view that our friends of the tri-system became to us a most interesting study. All three were, as it happened, not very much out with each other in point of age, and not very different,