Lucifer
A Holograph Note
The following holograph note, written in Santayana's hand on seven
pages of the flyleaf through page i in the copy of Lucifer: A Theological
Tragedy, (Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co., 1899), from
the personal library of Herman Saatkamp.
Being, in my youth, inter- Those who said that Satan
ested in the Devil, and think- was the true hero of Paradise
ing I knew him pretty well. Lost seemed to be right
I was never satisfied with negatively. He was a
the portraits of him found better hero than Milton's
in fiction or in popular Adam or than Milton's
fancy- God. Yet he seemed a
morose and ambitious