"But what a perfection of rottenness in a philosophy!"
— George Santayana

January 1, 1970

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William James, of Santayana's The Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900), in a letter to George H. Palmer (1900), as quoted in George Santayana : A Biography (2003) by John McCormick