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In your Feb. 2 article "Benedictine v. Trappist" I was very much impressed by the criticism of Thomas Merton by Dom Aelred Graham. I do not imagine that Father Graham has read Ascent to Truth by Merton; if he has, let him notice Chapter 14. Here are some excerpts: "He...
Lewis, the only philosopher present who knew Santayana personally, explained his self-imposed exile. "Teaching was not sufficient for his spectator mind. Which found satisfaction in contemplation," said Lewis.
Died. George Santayana, 88, Spanish-born poet, novelist (The Last Puritan), philosopher (The Sense of Beauty) and onetime (1907-12) Harvard professor who resigned to live in Europe in "the detachment of contemplation"; in Rome (see P-54)-
Not long after, he had a vision of life as an arrow, hurtling upwards into the blue; and not long after that, he had another in which the arrow split lengthwise. One half, as the metaphysical wunderkind interpreted it, was action, the other contemplation.
Now one of the serious consequences of the pressures of this period of rearmament is the diversion of scholars to immediate problems. Partial mobilization has accentuated the trend toward overemphasis on the practical which is a consequence of the type of society in which we live. For example, in the...