He found that when religion is discarded entirely, something terrible happens. Societies don’t become clear-eyed and calm. Quite the opposite. They become feverish. They become hostile.
The letters thus far published are from 1868 to 1932–Santayana’s birth and death dates are 1863 and 1952–and four more volumes are planned. Santayana’s prose was richly aphoristic and as elegantly ...
The Letters of George SantayanaVolume V, Books 1-8edited by William G. Holzberger, et al. MIT Press George Santayana (1863-1952) was not only one of the great American philosophers, he was also an ...
PERSONS AND PLACES—George Santayana—Scrlbner ($2.50). Eighty years ago last week, on New Year’s Day, 1864, Jorge Agustin Nicolás de Santayana was christened in Madrid. This week he published his ...
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PERSONS AND PLACES by George Sanfayana. 598 pages. Scr/bner. $7.50. SANTAYANA: THE LATER YEARS by Daniel Cory. 330 pages. Braziller. $7.50. William James looked doubtfully at the frail, pockmarked, ...
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