[rollei_list] Re: Veterans' Day/Armistice Day/Remembrance Day

Here is what they say:
Santayana's "Soliloquies in England" (Scribners, 1924, p. 102), Soliloquy #25, "Tipperary", in a section which reads: "Yet the poor fellows think they are safe! They think that the war is over! Only the dead have seen the end of war." Santayana does not attributes the saying to Plato, or anybody else for that matter. 

Those are the exact words.

Bob


At 11:32 PM 11/11/2008, Robert Meier wrote:
>Marc,
>
>While Plato does seem to be disqualified, that web page says it is fact that >Santayana used the line in 1924, and MacArthur didn't use it until 1962, so 
>you can't attibute it to MacArthur.

A good point, but we are probably quibbling over
details.  Santayana used like words but not the
direct quotation, I believe.  Santayana's version
was quoted by Pratt and de Camp in their Prewar
Science Fantasy and is cited in de Camp and Ley's
Postwar LANDS BEYOND.  But the precise wording
seems that of Douglas MacArthur.  Or am I reading something improperly?

Marc


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