Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy

"Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy" by George Santayana, '86, is as remarkable for the high level of its thought and its poetical expression as for the magnitude of its plan. In the Book of Job we have the presentation of one aspect of man's struggle with the mystery of evil; in Paradise Lost we have another; in Faust still another. Mr. Santayana's method is to embody the various attitudes of man towards life in the persons of Lucifer, Hermes, Mephistopheles, and Christ, and to show how they a...