Thus the simple lines of the hand, the timbre and compass ofthe voice as the individual characteristic of speech this too again as expressed in writing, where the hand gives it a more durable existence than the voice does, especially in the particular style of handwriting all this is an expression ofthe inner, so that, as a simple externality, the expres sion again stands over against the manifold externality of action and fate, stands in relation to them as an inner.