To Logan Pearsall Smith
C/o Brown Shipley & Co.
123 Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Rome. Dec. 2. 1921
Being lazy myself, I rather sympathize with our new masters, the proletariat, but I am sometimes afraid that they will be beguiled, will not really accept the simpler life which their ideal would impose on them, as well as on the rest of us, and will simply succumb to their old masters, or to new ones no less ungentle, after having made all this row for nothing.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Three, 1921-1927. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002.
Location of manuscript: The Library of Congress, Washington DC