By the way, I have been reading the last volume of the Bible (the Epistles & Apocalypse) in your modern edition. I long for notes; but even half understood the stuff is extraordinary. What could be more remote from polite religion than this palpitating, ... eschatological, revolutionary delusion? And what fisticuffs—controversial and perhaps physical—among these new-born saints!

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "By the way, I have been reading the last volume of the Bible (the Epistles & Apocalypse) in your modern edition. I long for notes; but even half understood the stuff is extraordinary. What could be more remote from polite religion than this palpitating, ... eschatological, revolutionary delusion? And what fisticuffs—controversial and perhaps physical—among these new-born saints!" in the context of "George Santayana, Holzberger, William G., , ed. (2001), The Letters of George Santayana. Book Two, 1910–1920 chapter: Letter to Charles Augustus Strong, 4 August 1912, page: 96, publisher: MIT Press, ISBN: 9780262194662" to mean that wisdom is timeless.