The man of culture, then, will leave undisturbed the myths that so comfort and inspire the life of the people; and perhaps he will a little envy them their hope. But he will have no faith in another life. “The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.”25 The only immortality that will interest him is that which Spinoza describes. “He who lives in the ideal,” says Santayana, “and leaves it expressed in society or in art enjoys a double immortality.
