To Victor Wolfgang von Hagen
C/o Brown Shipley & Co. 123
Pall Mall, London, S.W.1
Rome. March 9, 1929
The only definite assertion to which I demur is that I have always had plenty of money. If that had been the case, I never should have attempted to teach philosophy, but I had to earn my own living, and that was the way that happened to be open.
You are wrong fundamentally, I think, about Christ: those ravings of Nietzsche’s were excusable in him: but why repeat them?
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book Four, 1928–1932. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2003.
Location of manuscript: Unknown.