ABSTRACT
The aesthetic fact has in short been considered both in itself and in its relations with the other spiritual activities, with the feelings of pleasure and pain, with what are called physical facts, with memory and with historical treatment. The problems which Linguistic tries to solve, and the errors in which Linguistic has been and is involved, are the same that respectively occupy and complicate aesthetic. If it be not always easy, it is on the other hand always possible to reduce the philosophic questions of Linguistic to their aesthetic formula. Those linguists or philologists, philosophically endowed, who have penetrated deepest into the problems of language, find themselves like workmen piercing a tunnel: at a certain point they must hear the voices of their companions, the philosophers of aesthetic, who have been at work on the other side. At a certain stage of scientific elaboration, Linguistic, in so far as it is philosophy, must merge itself in aesthetic.
