C/o Brown Shipley & Co
123, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Venice. June 13, 1935
It is very interesting to know that you have gone over my various effusions on religion and found them consistent yet progressive. As far as I know, in this as in other matters, my views have not changed, once they were formed: but of course the sort of interest and the tone must have varied with age, and with the general background. My attention of late has been turned again to the subject, and I have been reading a lot of books about the origin of Christianity: if ever I got round to composing anything on that theme, it would be to reinforce my old contention about poetry in religion: Christianity (including the Four Gospels) is a product of inspiration. There is also a lot about religion in my “novel”, The Last Puritan, which will probably appear in the autumn: but nothing new for the purposes of you course, which I wish I could attend
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Five, 1933-1936. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Baker Memorial Library, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH