[20] Vorles. üb. Ästh. pp. 209-219; of. pp. 527-528.
[21] Op. cit. pp. 98-111.
[22] Vorles. üb. Ästh. pp. 635-648.
[23] Cf. e.g. p. 467 seqq.
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE: HUMBOLDT AND STEINTHAL
Progress of Linguistic.
About the time when Schleiermacher was meditating on the nature of the æsthetic fact, a movement of thought was gaining ground in Germany which, tending as it did to overthrow the old concept of language, might have proved a powerful aid to æsthetic science. But not only had the æsthetic specialists—if we may so call them—no notion of the existence of this movement, the new philosophers of language never brought their ideas into relation with the æsthetic problem, and their discoveries languished imprisoned within the narrow scope of Linguistic, condemned to sterility.