Written largely as lectures for British audiences, these essays look at America with the cool eye of a philosopher who had taught at Harvard for two decades. Santayana sketches the moral background of New England, the academic world, his colleagues William James and Josiah Royce, materialism and idealism in American life, and the peculiar character of English liberty transplanted to the New World.
Elegant, ironic and acute, one of the finest outsider’s portraits of the American mind. Download the free EPUB.