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nothing more than fancies or images impressed on 

 the mind for wise purposes, Ijy tlic onniipotcnt 

 Creator *. 



Although^ as was before observed, i at her Male- 

 branche shrank from this bold conehision of 

 Berkeley, yet he was aware that his reasonings led 

 to it; and, indeed, his work may be said to con- 

 tain a large portion of the arguments afterward 

 adopted by the acute and learned bishop, in their 

 full force. But to Berkeley is due tlie honour of 

 having first openiy espoused this doctrine, so con- 

 tradictory 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 f. 



About three years after the bishop's first publi- 

 cation on this subject, Arthur Collier, an English 

 clergyman, in his book, called Chnis Unkcr.salia, 

 or aN^ Inquiry after Truths endeavoured to de- 

 monstrate the nonexistence and impossibility of 

 an external world. The arguments which he ad- 

 duced in support of his cause are the same in sub- 

 stance with those used by Dr. Berkeley, though 

 the author says nothing of the work of that cele- 

 brated metaphysician, and does not aj^pear to have 

 seen it. 



* See Principles of Human Kjioiclcdgc. Dublin, 1710. 



t Mr. Dutens, who is anxious to find among the ancients every 

 invention and doctrine to which the moderns lay claim, quotes the 

 following passage, in which something like the Berklaan doctrine 

 is plainly alluded to. nvsloci roivov, y.cc'i avlov, /a-v ov7xv x^ur^^r.y 



'Hypotypos. lib. i, sect. 219. See lluhcychcs sur I0ng>n. dc A- 

 couverieSj &c. torn, i, 53. 



