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Title: Soliloquies in England

And Later Soliloquies

Author: George Santayana

Release Date: March 7, 2015 [eBook #48429]

Language: English

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SOLILOQUIES IN ENGLAND

AND LATER SOLILOQUIES

BY

GEORGE SANTAYANA

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1922

PREFACE

Many of these Soliloquies have appeared in The Athenaeum and one or more in The London Mercury, The Nation, The New Republic, The Dial, and The Journal of Philosophy. The author's thanks are due to the Editors of all these reviews for permission to reprint the articles.

For convenience, three Soliloquies on Liberty, written in 1915, have been placed in the second group; and perhaps it should be added that not a few of the later pieces were written in France, Spain, or Italy, although still for the most part on English themes and under the influence of English impressions.

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

SOLILOQUIES IN ENGLAND, 1914-1918

1. ATMOSPHERE
2. GRISAILLE
3. PRAISES OF WATER
4. THE TWO PARENTS OF VISION
5. AVERSION FROM PLATONISM
6. CLOUD CASTLES
7. CROSS-LIGHTS
8. HAMLET'S QUESTION
9. THE BRITISH CHARACTER
10. SEAFARING
11. PRIVACY
12. THE LION AND THE UNICORN
13. DONS
14. APOLOGY FOR SNOBS
15. THE HIGHER SNOBBERY
16. DISTINCTION IN ENGLISHMEN
17. FRIENDSHIPS
18. DICKENS
19. THE HUMAN SCALE
20. ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
21. THE ENGLISH CHURCH
22. LEAVING CHURCH
23. DEATH-BED MANNERS
24. WAR SHRINES
25. TIPPERARY
26. SKYLARKS
27. AT HEAVEN'S GATE

LATER SOLILOQUIES, 1918-1921

28. SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE
29.