The truth, as Santayana conceives it, is to be distinguished from any ‘opinion, even an ideally true one’2 and holds whether anyone has knowledge of it or not. One might almost say that its depsychologizing is the main aim of his theory of truth, a task which seemed especially necessary in the light of the treatment truth had received at the hands of William James and Josiah Royce, for the first of whom it consisted in an efficacious personal adjustment and for the latter of whom it consisted in an over-arching divine thought.3