Literature revolves round seven situations; music expresses everything with seven notes; painting employs but seven colors; like these three arts, love perhaps founds itself on seven principles, but we leave this investigation for the next century to carry out.[La littérature roule sur sept situations; la musique exprime tout avec sept notes; la peinture n’a que sept couleurs; comme ces trois arts, l’amour se constitue peut-être de sept principes, nous en abandonnons la recherche au siècle suivant.]
Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part I. A General Consideration, Meditation V. Of the Predestined, Page 61
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