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Our experience, however, must not make us draw a wrong con- 

 clusion from the poverty of language to express colour in earlier 

 ages of civilisation. As it is, we have no proper nomenclature 

 only such as we pick up from commerce and the colour-men. The 

 shifts we submit to in order to communicate sensations of colour 

 ought rather to teach us that in the Homeric or other early ages 

 colours were fully appreciated by the senses, but had not found 

 their analogues in language. 



