Havelock Ellis, writing in _Popular Science Monthly_, says:
The classic world had clearly begun, as savages have begun
everywhere, with an almost exclusive delight in red, even an
almost exclusive attention to it, and for Homer, as for the
Arabs, the rainbow was predominantly red; yellow had next been
added to the attractive colors; very slowly the other colors of
the spectrum began to win attention. Thus Democritus substituted
green for yellow in the list of primary colors previously given
by Empedocles. It was at a comparatively late period that blue
and violet became interesting or even acquired definite names.
The invasion of Christianity happened in time to join in this
movement along the spectrum.
Yellow became the color of jealousy, of envy, of treachery.
Judas was painted in yellow garments, and in some countries
Jews were compelled to be so drest. In France, in the sixteenth
century, the doors of traitors and felons were daubed with
yellow. In Spain, heretics who recanted were enjoined to wear a
yellow cross as a penance, and the Inquisition required them to
appear at public _autos da fé_ in penitential garments and
carrying a yellow candle.
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=Combination=--See UNION.
=Comfort from Faith=--See KOREA, WORK AMONG WOMEN IN.
=Commander, The, and His Men=--See DIFFICULTIES, OVERCOMING.
=Commandment, The Greatest=--See LOVE AND LAW.
=Commandments, The Ten=--See GUARDS OF THE SOUL.
=Commerce and Missions=--See MISSIONS AND COMMERCE.