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CHAPTER IV

F. C. S. SCHILLER

A British Pragmatist

The world knows nothing of its greatest men, because by the time it knows something about them they have ceased to be the greatest.

F. C. S. Schiller.

A dozen years ago I happened upon the word "pragmatism", as it was printed, rather inappropriately,[1] upon the slip cover of Santayana's "Life of Reason." Being a queer looking word and unknown to me, I started to find out what it meant and that led me on a long chase. The farther I went the more interested I became, for I soon discovered that I had been a pragmatist all my life without knowing it. I was as delighted as M. Jourdain when he was told that he had been unconsciously talking prose all his life. I felt as relieved

  1. ↑ Schiller says that "Professor Santayana, though a pragmatist in epistemology is a materialist in metaphysics."

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