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SOME TURNS OF THOUGHT IN
MODERN PHILOSOPHY
_Five Essays_
BY
GEORGE SANTAYANA
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1933
Published under the auspices of
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
CONTENTS
I. Locke and the Frontiers of Common Sense page 1
Paper read before the Royal Society of Literature on the
occasion of the Tercentenary of the birth of John Locke.
With some Supplementary Notes
II. Fifty Years of British Idealism 48
Reflections on the republication of Bradley's _Ethical Studies_
III. Revolutions in Science 71
Some Comments on the Theory of Relativity and the new Physics
IV. A Long Way Round to Nirvana 87
Development of a suggestion found in Freud's _Beyond the
Pleasure Principle_
V. The Prestige of the Infinite 102
A review of Julien Benda's _Sketch of a consistent theory of
the relations between God and the World_
The Author's acknowledgments are due to the Editors of _The New Adelphi_,
_The Dial_, and the _Journal of Philosophy_, in which one or more of these
Essays originally appeared.
I
LOCKE AND THE FRONTIERS OF COMMON SENSE[1]
A good portrait of Locke would require an elaborate background.
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