Hyl. Pardon me: the case of colours is very different. Can anything be plainer than that we see them on the objects?
Phil. The objects you speak of are, I suppose, corporeal Substances existing without the mind?
Hyl. They are.
Phil. And have true and real colours inhering in them?
Hyl. Each visible object hath that colour which we see in it.
Phil. How! is there anything visible but what we perceive by sight?
Hyl. There is not.
Phil. And, do we perceive anything by sense which we do not perceive immediately?
Hyl. How often must I be obliged to repeat the same thing? I tell you, we do not.
Phil. Have patience, good Hylas; and tell me once more, whether there is anything immediately perceived by the senses, except sensible qualities. I know you asserted there was not; but I would now be informed, whether you still persist in the same opinion.