To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Via Santo Stefano Rotondo, 6
Rome. May 21, 1948
I also had a new admirer in Texas, named Dick Lyon, who prefers “Normal Madness” to all my writings, is 21 years old and threatens to come to see me! I am made happy by things like that; and that British philosophers dislike me is perfectly natural. I belong to a different phase of reflexion, and glad rather than grieved at not being in the spirit of my times. Toynbee, however, seems to me my contemporary in history. In philosophy he is simply a time-server.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Eight, 1948-1952. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY