XII. 



BISHOP BEKKELEY ON THE METAPHYSICS OF 

 SENSATION. 1 



PROFESSOR FRASER 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 rnind 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 vir- 

 tues 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 Atter- 

 bury could compare to nothing less than an angel ; and 

 whose personal influence and eloquence filled the Scrib- 

 lerus Club and the House of Commons with enthusiasm 

 for the evangelization of the North American Indians ; 



i " The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., formerly Bishop of Cloyne, in- 

 cluding many of his Works hitherto unpublished, with Preface, Annotations, 

 his Life and Letters, and an Account of his Philosophy." By A. C. Eraser. 

 Fourvols. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1871. 



