Word: santayana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contentment With Life. One of the qualities of the English spirit is happiness-"a deep source of inner contentment with life." Professor Rowse agrees with Santayana that the English provide the best example of a people in harmony with their environment. In Professor Rowse's case the harmony means far more than love of the rolling English landscapes which he evokes at the slightest excuse, and occasionally with no excuse at all. He loves English history as he loves the lilacs and rhododendrons, the chestnuts, yews and sycamores that he sees on his walks. The great houses where...
Persons and Places, by George Santayana, is the famed philosopher's unfinished autobiography. It tells of his boyhood in Spain and the tragic loneliness of his Spanish family in alien Boston, with a very brief account of his years at Harvard-a stoic recital of intellectual hardships written with epicurean felicity...
...result is, like Santayana's The Last Puritan, a novel in the form of a memoir, not autobiographical, since it centers on someone other than the author, not fiction, since what it tells really happened, not biography, since it is not confined in a rigid framework of fact. At its best, this type of work combines the narrative interest of fiction with the educative value of biography...
...shall never leave here," said Santayana, looking about the place where he has been in retreat since 1941. "There has been so much killing and so much suffering in the world's history...
...Philosopher Santayana had long ago rendered his verdict on the age that caught up with him in Rome last week: "In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war." "Perhaps," he added, "the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies...