The most eminent philosopher in the Western world, GEORGE SANTAYANA has been living and writing for some years at the Convent of the Blue Nuns in Rome. His first work of philosophy, The Sense of Beauty, was published in 1896; his latest, Dominations and Powers, in 1951. In between he has been working on his memoirs, two volumes of which have already appeared — in part in the Atlantic — and from the third of which, In the Old World, we are happy to draw this independent chapter, written in Italy in 1942.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, now eighty-seven, has concluded his profound. far-reaching wark, Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty. Society, and Government, a book begun in the thirties and carried on during the war years in his sanctuary, the Convent of the Blue Nuns, in Nome. The book is to be published by Scribner’s this spring, and from it the Atlantic has been privileged to draw a series of essays of which this is the second.
GEORGE SANTAYANA, who will soon celebrate his eighty-seventh birthday, has brought to conclusion his profound, far-reaching new work, Dominations and Powers, a book begun in the thirties and carried on during the war years in his sanctuary, the Convent of the Blue Nuns, in Rome. The book is to be published by Scribner’s next spring, and from it the Atlantic has been privileged to draw a series of essays of which this is the first.
The most eminent philosopher in the English-speaking world. GEOHGE SANTAYANA has keen working for some years on his memoirs, two volumes of which hare already appeared under the title of Persons and Places: “The Background of My Life (1944) and “The Middle Span (1945). Front the third and concluding volume, now in preparation, the Atlantic is privileged to draw this and the chapter which we published in December, under the title “A Change of Heart.”Each contains passages characteristic of Santayana at his best; each reflects his sense of detachment from his own time, and his critical and contemplative devotion to truth.
The most eminent philosopher in the English-speaking world, GEORGE SANTAYANA has been working for some years on his memoirs, two volumes of which have appeared under the title Persons and Places: “The Background of My Life“ (1944) and “The Middle Span" (1945). From the final volume, now in preparation, we are privileged to draw this and a subsequent chapter. Each contains passages characteristic of Santayana at his best; each reflects his detachment from his own time, and his critical and contemplative devotion to truth.
The most eminent philosopher in the English-speaking world, GEORGE SANTAYANA,now in his eighty-fifth year, is living in Rome and writing with vigor and sapience. It has been the Atlantic’s privilege to publish in successive issues this spring his three new Dialogues. Each contains passages characteristic of Santayana at his best; each reflects his sense of detachment from his own time, or any particular time, and his critical and contemplative devotion to truth as he sees it, regardless of age, war, or climate.
The most eminent philosopher in the English-speaking world, GEORGE SANTAYANA,now in his eighty-fifth year, is living in Rome and writing with vigor and sapience. This is the second of his three new Dialogues, which it is the Atlantic’s privilege to publish in successive issues this spring. Each contains passages characteristic of Santayana at his best; each reflects his sense of detachment from his own time, or any particular time, and his critical and contemplative devotion to truth as he sees it, regardless of age, war, or climate.
The most eminent philosopher in the English-speaking world, GEORGE SANTAYANA, now in his eighty-fifth year, is living in Rome and writing with vigor and sapience. It is the Atlantic’s privilege to publish in successive issues this spring his three new Dialogues, two of them short and the third of considerable length. Each contains passages characteristic of Santayana at his best; each reflects his sense of detachment from his own time, or any particular time, and his critical and contemplative devotion to truth as he sees it, regardless of age, war, or climate.