The sensible presentation is merely the costume; what is properly symbolic is the concept That precisely this presentation had to be chosen is something that was dictated by need, since unless there was unity concerning something or other no reciprocal communication would have been possible; yet it was impossible to unite human beings concerning anything else, because they were not yet capable of distinguishing the costume that the concept had received by chance from the essence of the concept To this extent, therefore, every symbol is and remains a makeshift symbol Notsymbol.