8 Philosophy of the Human Mind. 



tions. The first, according to him, are presented to 

 us by our five senses; they have no existence when 

 they are not perceived, and exist only in the minds 

 of those who perceive them. The second kind of 

 objects he supposed to comprehend spirits, their 

 acts, and the relations and habitudes of things : of 

 these, he contended, we have notions but not 

 ideas, But of all the opinions taught by this great 

 and good man, none have rendered him mope fa- 

 mous, than his denial that those prototypes of our 

 ideas, usually called material objects, have any 

 real existence; and contending that all the varied 

 beauties of creation which we behold, are nothing 

 more than fancies or images impressed on the mind 

 for wise purposes, by the omnipotent Creator/ 



Although, as was before observed, Father Male- 

 branche shrunk from this bold conclusion of 

 Berkeley, yet he was aware that his reasonings 

 Jed to it: and, indeed, his w r ork may be said to 

 contain a large portion of the arguments afterwards 

 adopted by the acute and learned Bishop, in their 

 full force. But to Berkeley is due the honour 

 of having first openly espoused this doctrine, so 

 contradictory to all our feelings and senses; of de- 

 fending it upon a more formal and extensive plan 

 than any of his predecessors; and of giving new 

 and ingenious views of the subject/ 



About three years after the Bishop's first public 

 cation on this subject, Arthur Collier, an Eng- 

 lish clergyman, in his book, called Clams Univer- 

 salis - y or a New Inquiry after Truth, endeavoured 



9 See Principles cf Human Knowledge. Dublin, 1710. 



d M. Dutens, who is anxious to find among the ancients every inven- 

 tion and doctrine to which the moderns lay claim, quotes the following 

 passage, in which something like the Berhhian doctrine is plainly alluded 

 to. rivslai Toivoy, n.oC\' uvlovj low ovjwv xgClw^tov a.v§?w7To$' tcccvIoc yoc^ \x> 



ovh zfUv. Sext. Empiric. Pyrrhon. Hypotypos. lib. i. sect. 219. See Re- 

 •htrshts sur V Origins de Dccovvertes, &c. torn. i. $%. 



