Lucifer by George Santayana

GEORGE SANTAYANA was born on December 16, 1863, in Madrid, Spain. His mother took him to Boston, Massachusetts, when his parents divorced nine years later, in 1872, where he attended the elite Boston Latin School and Harvard College. Santayana spent two years studying in Berlin after graduating from Harvard in 1886, but he returned to the United States to seek a PhD in philosophy at Harvard, where he studied under William James. Santayana went on to teach at a university after completing his degree. But, in 1912, the philosopher received a bequest from his mother's inheritance, allowing him to stop teaching.

He proceeded to Europe, first stopping in London and then Paris before settling in Rome. He stayed there until September 26, 1952, when he died. Santayana was a poet, literary critic, and philosopher who made substantial contributions to aesthetics, primarily through the publication of The Sense of Beautiful (1896), his first major work in this field, which concentrates on humanity's creative life rather than the underlying structures of reality or humankind's techniques of perceiving reality. The Life of Reason (5 vols., 1905-1906), Santayana's most famous work, continues and expands on this idea.

In, Santayana kept a naturalistic approach. Everything ideal has a natural basis, and everything natural has an ideal growth, according to all of his literature. Skepticism and Animal Faith (1923) and the Realms of Being (4 vols., 1927-1940), as well as his highly praised novel The Last Puritan (1935) and his autobiography, People and Places (3 vols., 1944-1953), are only a few of Santayana's other writings.