To Charles Scribner’s Sons
75 Monmouth St
Brookline, Massachusetts. November 21, 1906
You asked some time ago for a list of errata in “The Life of Reason”. I have one that I can send—unhappily a rather long one—but if the possible reprint is not to be made soon, it might be better to keep it a while longer, as new errors are pointed out to me from time to time by various people, and I suppose the correction ought to be as thorough as possible. I don’t mean to make any changes in the text, except of clerical errors, on the principle of Musset “lorsqu’on change sans cesse au passé pourquoi rien changer”? When I am converted I will make my recantation in a new book and not spoil the old one.
From The Letters of George Santayana: Book One, [1868]-1909. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
Location of manuscript: Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ