Spanish–born philosopher who made significant contributions to aesthetics, the study of beauty, as well as to literary criticism and modern speculative philosophy. His best-known work is The Life of Reason, in which he asserts that reason is a union of impulse and ideas. ALS signed “G. Santayana,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, June 25, 1917. Letter to Hapgood. In part, “I can’t help always feeling as if someone were dying in the house. Since you spoke of the ‘New Europe’ I have been reading it. There is a notice about the Republican meeting at the Bull Ring in Madrid, so full of blunders, that I have written to the Editor pointing them out - something I never do. I hope the information he gives us about Russia and the East is not in need of our total ignorance on those subjects to appear authoritative.” In fine condition, with mailing folds and light show through from text on reverse. R&R COA.
