Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. I assure you I have done nothing ever since I saw you
but search after mistakes and fallacies, and, with that view,
have minutely examined the whole series of yesterday's discourse:
but all in vain, for the notions it led me into, upon review,
appear still more clear and evident; and, the more I consider
them, the more irresistibly do they force my assent.
. And is not this, think you, a sign that they are
genuine, that they proceed from nature, and are conformable to
right reason? Truth and beauty are in this alike, that the
strictest survey sets them both off to advantage; while the false
lustre of error and disguise cannot endure being reviewed, or too
nearly inspected.
. I own there is a great deal in what you say. Nor can
any one be more entirely satisfied of the truth of those odd
consequences, so long as I have in view the reasonings that lead
to them. But, when these are out of my thoughts, there seems, on
the other hand, something so satisfactory, so natural and
intelligible, in the modern way of explaining things that, I
profess, I know not how to reject it.
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