Robert D. Richardson, in his review of the eighth book of The Letters of George Santayana (MIT Press), said that:
"Santayana is the American champion of the inner life, the life of reason. He believed that religion -- by which he meant 'feeling attracted to the Church, feeling its historic and moral authority, and yet seeing that its doctrine is not true' -- in its 'humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.' Grace abounded in his own life. And when he died just short of 90, his friend and disciple Daniel Cory read Santayana's poem 'The Poet's Testament' at the funeral: 'I give back to the earth what the earth gave / All to the furrow, nothing to the grave.'"
Robert D. Richardson, in his review of the eighth book of The Letters of George Santayana (MIT Press), said that:
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The rest of Mr Richardson's review is here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122973945729523587.html