If now the external shape and form were able to express the inner individuality only in so far as that shape is neither an organ nor action, hence only in so far as it is an inert passive whole, it would then play the r(tm)le of a subsistent thing, which received undisturbed the inner as an alien element into its own passive being, and thereby became the sign and symbol of it-an external contingent expression, whose actual concrete aspect has no meaning of its own-a language whose sounds and tone-combinations are not the real fact itself, but are capriciously connected with it and a mere accident so far as it is concerned.
Orain, bada, kanpoko tankerak, organo ez denez eta egite ez denez, eta beraz, osoki lasaia denez, barne banakotasuna adierazi ahal izango balu besterik gabe, orduan beraz irauten duen gauza gisa jokatuko luke, zeinak barneko-dena arrotz-den bat balitz bezala bere horizate jasailean jasoko lukeen eta horren bidez haren zeinua izango litzatekeen; kanpoko, ausazko adierazpena litzateke, horren alde erreala bere baitarako esanahigabea; bere tonuak eta tonuen arteko loturak hizkuntza bat dira, ez gauza bera baizik eta horri edozein modutan lotutakoa eta harentzat ausazkoa den hizkuntza.