GOETHE'S

it seems to some authorities,¹²³ agrees with Aristotle in reckoning black and white as colours, placing them at the beginning and end of the scale.¹²⁴ Like Aristotle, again, he frequently makes use of the term black, for obscurity; he even goes further, for he seems to consider that blue may be produced by the actual mixture of black and white, provided they are pure.¹²⁵