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It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics.

If semeiotics does not tell us the passion which the sign reveals, how can æsthetics indicate to us the sign which it should apply to the passion that it studies?

Let us add to this parallel that wisdom and reason are to intelligence what æsthetics and semeiotics are to ontology; that is:-- 1.

If, from a certain organic form, I infer a certain sentiment, that is Semeiotics.

It is clearly easier to translate a language than to write it, and just as we must learn to translate before we can compose, so we must become thoroughly familiar with semeiotics before trying to work at æsthetics; and, as the science of semeiotics is still wholly incomplete, it is, therefore, absolutely impossible that that which is called æsthetics should in the least resemble the science which I have just defined.