The fact that up to the present day, nearly half a century after the appearance of Goethe's theory of colours, even in Germany the Newtonian fallacies still have undisturbed possession of the professorial chair, and men continue to speak quite seriously of the seven homogeneous rays of light and their different refrangibility, will some day be numbered among the great intellectual peculiarities of men generally, and especially of Germans.
Gaur oraindik, Goetheren irten eta ia mende-erdi bat geroago Alemanian bertan Newtonen asmakeriek deuseztu gabe katedren jabe irautea eta oraindik zazpi argi homogeneoez serioski eta horien errefrangibilitate desberdinaz hitz egiten jarraitzea-gizadiaren karakter-ezaugarri intelektual handien artean oro har, eta alemangoarenaren artean bereziki ezartzekoak dira.