Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. [Few men think; yet all have opinions. Hence men's
opinions are superficial and confused. It is nothing strange that
tenets which in themselves are ever so different, should
nevertheless be confounded with each other, by those who do not
consider them attentively. I shall not therefore be surprised if
some men imagine that I run into the enthusiasm of Malebranche;
though in truth I am very remote from it. He builds on the most
abstract general ideas, which I entirely disclaim. He asserts an
absolute external world, which I deny. He maintains that we are
deceived by our senses, and, know not the real natures or the
true forms and figures of extended beings; of all which I hold
the direct contrary. So that upon the whole there are no
Principles more fundamentally opposite than his and mine. It must
be owned that][5] I entirely agree with what the holy Scripture
saith, "That in God we live and move and have our being." But
that we see things in His essence, after the manner above set
forth, I am far from believing.
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