Symbolism

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Symbolism

The pictorial expression of an idea or a thought. Primordial writing had at first no characters, but a symbol generally stood for a whole phrase or sentence. A symbol is thus a recorded parable, and a parable a spoken symbol. The Chinese written language is nothing more than symbolical writing, each of its several thousand letters being‐a symbol. (TG).

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Shortly: The pictorial expression of an idea or a thought. Primordial writing had at first no characters, but...