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George Santayana. Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies
Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
SOLILOQUIES IN ENGLAND
1914–1918. 1. ATMOSPHERE
2. GRISAILLE
3. PRAISES OF WATER
4. THE TWO PARENTS OF VISION
5. AVERSION FROM PLATONISM
6. CLOUD CASTLES
7. CROSS-LIGHTS
8. HAMLET'S QUESTION
9. THE BRITISH CHARACTER
10. SEAFARING
11. PRIVACY
12. THE LION AND THE UNICORN
13. DONS
14. APOLOGY FOR SNOBS
15. THE HIGHER SNOBBERY
16. DISTINCTION IN ENGLISHMEN
17. FRIENDSHIPS
18. DICKENS
19. THE HUMAN SCALE
20. ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
21. THE ENGLISH CHURCH
22. LEAVING CHURCH
23. DEATHBED MANNERS
24. WAR SHRINES
25. TIPPERARY
26. SKYLARKS
27. AT HEAVEN'S GATE
LATER SOLILOQUIES
1918–1921. 28. SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE
29. IMAGINATION
30. THE WORLD'S A STAGE
31. MASKS
32. THE TRAGIC MASK
33. THE COMIC MASK
34. CARNIVAL
35. QUEEN MAB
36. A CONTRAST WITH SPANISH DRAMA
37. THE CENSOR AND THE POET
38. THE MASK OF THE PHILOSOPHER
39. THE VOYAGE OF THE SAINT CHRISTOPHER
40. CLASSIC LIBERTY
41. GERMAN FREEDOM
42. LIBERALISM AND CULTURE
43. THE IRONY OF LIBERALISM
44. JOHN BULL AND HIS PHILOSOPHERS
45. OCCAM'S RAZOR
46. EMPIRICISM
47. THE BRITISH HEGELIANS
48. THE PROGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY
49. THE PSYCHE
50. REVERSION TO PLATONISM
51. IDEAS
52. THE MANSIONS OF HELEN
53. THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS
54. ON MY FRIENDLY CRITICS
55. HERMES THE INTERPRETER
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George Santayana
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The sages (and some of them much more recent than Thales) tell us that water not only wears away the rocks, but has a singular power of carrying away their subtler elements in solution, especially carbonic acid, of which the atmosphere also is full; and it happens that these elements can combine with the volatile dements of water into innumerable highly complex substances, all of which the atmospheric cycle carries with it wherever it goes; and with these complex substances, which are the requisite materials for living bodies, it everywhere fills the sea and impregnates the land.
Even if life, then, is not actually born of the moist element, it is at least suckled by it; the water-laden atmosphere is the wet nurse, if not the mother, of the earth-soul. The earth has its soul outside its body, as many a philosopher would have wished to have his. The winds that play about it are its breath, the water that rains down and rises again in mist is its circulating blood; and the death of the earth will come when some day it sucks in the atmosphere and the sea, gets its soul inside its body again, turns its animating gases back into solids, and becomes altogether a skeleton of stone.
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