To Logan Pearsall Smith
22 Beaumont St Oxford
April 6, 1919

Dear Smith,

Both you and Mr Kyllmann are very good. Of course, a new and more manageable edition of the Life of Reason has been the dream of my life, but it must be a revised edition. I don’t mean that I think it worth while to rewrite the book: if I attempted it, I should spoil whatever may be good and fresh about it.

From The Letters of George Santayana:  Book Two, 1910–1920.  Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: The Library of Congress, Washington DC.