To Bertrand Arthur William Russell
Queen’s Acre
Windsor, England. July 6, 1908
Here is your article with James’s comments, both of which are entertaining, but I can’t help thinking that “pragmatism” still requires a fair historical elucidation. It seems to be a mixture of old saws and half-born intuitions, the most fundamental of them being, perhaps, despair concerning attainable truth, or agnosticism.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Mills Memorial Library, Bertrand Russell Archives, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.