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every instant of that time. But such a being could never know
anything about its own consciousness. It could not think anything that
is expressible as a proposition. It could have no idea of such a thing. It
would be confined to feeling that color.
True, if you perceive that you must at the instant in question have
been looking at a given specimen of red-lead, you know that that color
has some resemblance to your feeling at that instant. But this only means
that when the feeling gives place to comparison this resemblance appears.
But there is no resemblance at all in Feeling, since Feeling is
whatever it is, positively and regardless of anything else, while the resemblance
of anything lies in the comparison of that thing with something
else. (omitted[?)]

If all this which I am saying to you seems hardly intelligible, allow