Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 27, 2025
It may be that I have but a few weeks more to live. Every day, therefore, dearest, let me pour out my soul to you, now my one comfort on earth, since my heart was laid in the grave of my Santayana. It is night; all the house is wrapped in slumber; I alone wake and weep. I seldom sleep now, save by fitful snatches. It seems a thousand years since I heard from you, my cool snow-pearl of cousins.
Similarly, the peaceful settlement of international disputes will doubtless before many generations become so universal that it will be difficult for our grandchildren or great- grandchildren to realize that as late as early in the twentieth century the most civilized nations still had recourse to the old and barbarous wager of battle. G. Santayana, Reason in Society, chap.
But Santayana does not make the mistake of regarding the Reformation as a return to Palestinian Christianity. This was, indeed, the opinion of the Reformers themselves; but all religious innovation seeks to base itself on some old tradition.
The other danger is that, since a geographical and historical heaven is found to have no actuality, the hope of eternal life, with all that the spiritual world contains, should be relegated to the sphere of the 'ideal. This seems to be the position of Höffding, and is quite clearly the view of thinkers like Santayana.
Of course religious myths may come to be a bar to progress in science; they do so when, in a rationalizing age, the question comes to be one of fact or fiction. It is a mistake to suppose that the faith of a 'post-rational' age, to use a phrase of Santayana, can be the same as that of an unscientific age, even when it uses the same formulas.
But when they are present only in their effect, a diffused feeling of pleasure, that diffused feeling is attributed directly to the object, is felt as if it inheres therein, and so the object becomes more beautiful, for beauty is objectified pleasure. Professor Santayana designates form as beauty in the first term, and expression as beauty in the second term.
Professor Santayana has lately noted the same difference between the type of character developed by the Latin nations and by the Anglo-Saxons.
There are, says Professor Santayana, Nibelungen who toil underground over a gold which they will never use, and in their obsession with production begrudge themselves all inclinations to recreation, to merriment, to fancy.
An interesting attempt to reconcile these two points of view to establish an organic relation between form and idea is found in "The Sense of Beauty" by Professor George Santayana. The central point of this writer's theory is his definition of beauty as the objectification of pleasure.
Nor are we willing either to say with Santayana that all our sense of the beauty of the world is merely pleasure objectified and that we can infer no eternal Beauty from it.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking