ABSTRACT
The psychological sphere is functionally moral, consciousness marking a success in organic life; 1 but the whole machinery of this moral triumph is physical. Language, for instance, and its social function are physical complications, vocal, economic, and historical: and even the spiritual function of language, yielding music and truth, can be exercised only through that physical medium. Words should therefore not be blamed for being only words, symbolic and wholly unlike their objects. Rather they ask to be used freely, with sympathy towards the genius of words; so all the better, through the plastic network of their sound and syntax, something of the structure of things may be revealed.
