Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 20 Fall 2002

              14 OVERHEARD IN SEVILLE
almost reflects the wisdom of the United States Constitution as it pronounces on
religious freedom, although he would prefer that we attach ourselves to, and submit to
the authority of, a great imaginative establishment such as the Catholic Church — or,
at least, the Church of England, and he would rather not endorse the priesthood of all
believers. Religion should be communal — neither aggressively evangelical nor
mystical. His "atheism" is no more than a guarantee of the freedom of the imagination
In conceiving whatever religion best suits our own hearts and ideals.
H. T. KIRBY-SMITH
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Works Cited
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Santayana, George. The Idea of Christ in the Gospels; or, God in Man, a Critical
Essay, New York: Scribner's, 1946.
— Interpretations of Poetry and Religion. New York: Scribner's, 1921.
— Persons and Places: Fragments of an Autobiography. Ed. William .G. Holzberger
and Herman J. Saatkamp, Jr. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1986.
—- Realms of Being. New York: Scribner's: 1942.
-—Reason in Religion. Vol. 3 ofThe Life of Reason. New York: Scribner's, 1906.
— Reason in Science. Vol. 5 of The Life of Reason. New York: Scribner's, 1906.
-—Reason in Society. Vol. 2 of The Life of Reason. New York: Scribner's, 1905.
— The Sense of Beauty. New York: Scribner's, 1896.
— Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. New ed. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan
Press, 1967.
Sprigge, Timothy. "Religion without the Supernatural." Delft: Eburon, 1993.
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