Berkeley, George
"Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous"
. I own, Philonous, I think it does not. This of the
is the last objection I can think of; and I must needs
own it hath been sufficiently answered as well as the rest.
Nothing now remains to be overcome but a sort of unaccountable
backwardness that I find in myself towards your notions.
. When a man is swayed, he knows not why, to one side
of' the question, can this, think you, be anything else but the
effect of prejudice, which never fails to attend old and rooted
{257} notions? And indeed in this respect I cannot deny the
belief of Matter to have very much the advantage over the
contrary opinion, with men of a learned, education.
. I confess it seems to be as you say.
. As a balance, therefore, to this weight of
prejudice, let us throw into the scale the great advantages that
arise from the belief of Immaterialism, both in regard to
religion and human learning. The being of a God, and
incorruptibility of the soul, those great articles of religion,
are they not proved with the clearest and most immediate
evidence? When I say the being of a God, I do not mean an obscure
general Cause of things, whereof we have no conception, but God,
in the strict and proper sense of the word.
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