Abstract
(EORGE Santayana has the reputation of being an Olympian. He maintained an aloof position, absorbed in serene contemplation while two world wars raged about him. He turned away from his native Spain, from Catholicism, from marriage, from Harvard and America, Oxford and England. There are writers who describe him as cold and marmoreal, or cynical and malicious, and even such eminent persons as Bertrand Russell and W. H. Auden picture him as supercilious.' Now it can be shown that Santayana was an Olympian, but not a coolly detached one. He himself once wrote, Genuine detachment presupposes attachment. What can it signify for you to say that you renounce everything, if as yet you have loved nothing? Unless this is mere rhetoric, the philosopher must have had some real attachments. They may be divided into three categories: places, persons, and ideas, all of them related to Santayana's peculiar temperament.2
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