To Daniel MacGhie Cory
Hotel Bristol
Rome. May 18, 1933
You seemed to be worried at the fact that professors have opposite views, and hate one another. When was it otherwise? And if you eschewed philosophy on that account, and took, let us say, to history, because there everything is big clear and unmistakably on the most superficial human plane, you would find the same endless and bitter controversy.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Butler Library, Columbia University, New York NY