BISHOP BEEKELEY ON THE META- 

 PHYSICS OF SENSATION* 



[1871] 



PROFESSOR ERASER has earned the thanks of all 

 students of philosophy for the conscientious 

 labour which he has bestowed upon his new 

 edition of the works of Berkeley; in which, for 

 the first time, we find collected together every 

 thought which can be traced to the subtle and 

 penetrating mind of the famous Bishop of Cloyne; 

 while the " Life and Letters " will rejoice those 

 who care less for the idealist and the prophet of 

 tar-water, than for the man who stands out as one 

 of the noblest and purest figures of his time: that 

 Berkeley from whom the jealousy of Pope did 

 not withhold a single one of all " the virtues 

 under heaven;" nor the cynicism of Swift, the 

 dignity of " one of the first men of the kingdom 

 for learning and virtue; " the man whom the 

 pious Atterbury could compare to nothing less 



* The Works of George Berkeley, D. D., formerly Bishop 

 of Cloyne, including many of his Works hitherto unpub- 

 lished, with Preface, Annotations, his Life and Letters, and 

 an Account of his Philosophy. By A. C. Fraser. Four 

 vols. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1871. 



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