By George Santayana
Book 3 of George Santayana's letters covers a interval of severe highbrow task in Santayana's existence, and the correspondence displays the institution of his mature philosophy. Santayana turns into extra completely tested in Italy, yet keeps to shuttle in France, Spain, and England. The yr 1927 marks the start of his lengthy friendship with Daniel Cory, who turned his literary secretary and finally his literary executor. additionally, with the loss of life of Santayana's half-brother Robert, George Sturgis, Robert's son, turns into an incredible a part of Santayana's lifestyles and letters as his monetary supervisor. Santayana maintains to write down to his sister Susana, in addition to to varied buddies and fellow philosophers, together with Bernard Berenson, Robert Seymour Bridges, Curt John Ducasse, John Erskine, Horace Meyer Kaller, Lewis Mumford, George Herbert Palmer, John Francis Stanley Russell, Herbert Wallace Schneider, Charles Augustus robust, Paul Weiss, and Harry Austryn Wolfson. different correspondents contain Wendell T. Bush, Alys Gregory, Marianne Moore, John Middleton Murray, and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge.
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If they are not, you are cheating yourself. I don’t mean that if you chose to pursue the objects you most value, you would attain them; of course not. Your experience will tell you that. … but success in getting after much labour what you really don’t care for is the bitterest and most ridiculous failure. Santayana had several other close friends among his Harvard classmates, and the fact that he was socially active during his undergraduate years (or at least as active as his very modest means would permit) is now well known.
A succinct statement of his positions on religion, science, and poetry is found in the 31 August 1951 letter to Ira D. Cardiff. In that letter Santayana attempts to explain his unbifurcated view of religion and naturalism, and he indicts positivism for unimaginativeness. Because Santayana’s philosophy is one of materialism and naturalism, wherein xxxvi The Letters of George Santayana everything—including spirit or consciousness—has a material basis, there can be no personal immortality of the kind traditionally conceived of by religion.
If Santayana’s affection for young Bob Sturgis was grandfatherly, his feeling for the young Daniel Cory was fatherly. Santayana first met Cory in April 1927, when Cory was twenty-two and Santayana sixty-three, and a long, intimate friendship began. Cory, who first encountered Santayana’s writings at Columbia University, had left college before completing a degree and had gone to live and work in London. Impressed with an essay that the young man had written on his philosophy and sent to him, Santayana offered to pay Cory’s expenses for a visit to Rome.