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Letter from Santayana...
...footnote to your excellent review of George Santayana's Persons and Places (TIME...
...those who have interest in Mr. Santayana the last letter I received from him [was] dated Dec. 4, 1941. "The longer I live," he wrote, "the more I lean on nature at large and the less on the conceit of human beings...
They are poignant, and they touch on the problem of faith. In Persons and Places there are some new explanations and corrections of mistaken views of Santayana's beliefs, but now they no longer appear to be written to an earthly critic...
...that disqualifies George Santayana as the philosopher and teacher of the Americas and Spain is his inability to make the U.S. take him in earnest. The fault is less his own than it is another illustration of the unerring U.S. instinct for overlooking...