Horae Sabbaticae: Reprint of Articles Contributed to the Saturday Review, Third Series

James Fitzjames Stephen

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I BERKELEY'S METAPHYSICAL WORKS

BERKELEY’S METAPHYSICAL WORKS

Hakdly any English writer on philosophical subjects has attained a reputation so pleasant in itself as Bishop Berkeley. It is impossible to read his works without feeling for their author something of the sentiment which led Pope to attribute to him * every virtue under heaven.’ In all that he writes there is an air of genuine goodness, united with an amount of precision and force of thought, and also with an enthusiasm for his opinions, to which it would not be easy to find any parallel in his own time and country.

Besides this, it ought to be said in his favour that he is always high-minded and public-spirited. The only charge indeed which can properly be brought against him is that, though no writer of his age had greater intellectual gifts — if indeed any one was his equal in acuteness of thought and accuracy of expression — ^he cared too much for the utility, and too little for the truth, of his speculations.

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