Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 19 Fall 2001

              38 OVERHEARD IN SEVILLE
Santayana offers, in the setting of his realm of spirit, an austere approach to
ancient problems about god, freedom, and immortality. Mortal we remain, our
psychic life is hectic, but on occasion we perceive and appreciate things under the
aspect of eternity, and for a moment touch a kind of immortality. At these times, we
attain a spiritual freedom, a state that is accessible to those able to exploit their vital
liberty. The aesthetic appreciation of essence or the union with the good are his
substitutes for worship; but to existing powers and things — perhaps designated by
the term *God' — we owe only understanding and piety.
ANGUS KERR-LAWSON
University of Waterloo
The Santayana Edition
Two years ago, the offices of the Santayana Edition moved from Texas A&M
University following Herman Saatkamp, General Editor of the project, and now Dean
of the School of liberal Arts at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
(IUPUI). With generous support from the School and the University, the Edition's
work has progressed significantly, and we are pleased to announce the publication of
Book One, [1868-1909], of The Letters of George Santayana which received the seal
of approval from the Modern Language Association's Committee on Scholarly
Editions. Released in the spring (2001) by MIT Press, this is the first of eight books
of letters constituting Volume V of The Works of George Santayana. We anticipate
publication of Book Two, 1910-1920, this fall (announced for December in MIT's
fall catalog), with the remaining six books to be issued at six-month intervals. For
more information about Book One, view the Santayana Edition web page at
http^/www.iupuI.edu/~santedit/bookone.html.
A great deal of thanks is owed to Joshua Garrison, Assistant Editor, for
preparation of these volumes for publication, and we are very sorry that he has
decided to resign his position on the staff to return to graduate school and finish his
Ph.D. in the History of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington. We do,
however, wish him much good luck in his pursuits. Johanna Resler has joined the
Edition as the new assistant editor, beginning 1 June. Johanna is an
English/Philosophy major from the University of Wisconsin, and has worked with
QuarkXPress, the desktop publishing program that is used to produce files for MIT.
A proposal will be submitted in the fall to the National Endowment for the
Humanities requesting funding beginning fall 2002 to support completion of Volume
V and to continue the critical editing of the five books of Volume VI, The Life of
Reason.
HERMAN J. SAATKAMP JR.
MARION S. WOKECK
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)