16. Goethe as Thinker and Investigator

In this way, Goethe advances from contemplation of colour as an attribute of the phenomenal world to this world itself as manifesting with that attribute. He does not stop there, but goes on finally to contemplate the higher relationship of the colored corporeal world to the human soul in that chapter on “ The sense-perceptible and moral Effect of Colour.” (“ Sinnlichsittliche Wirkung der Farbe”)