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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further Northern news. (search)
Argument against the senses. Berkley, Bishop of Cloyne, about a century and a half ago, or something less, undertook to prove that there was no such thing as matter; that we lived in a continual state of deception; that the eyes, the ears, thets ever succeed in accomplishing.--Perhaps the result is fairly stated in those well known lines of Byron: "When Bishop Berkley said there was no matter, And proved it, it was no matter what he said." Bishop Berkley was doubtless a great orBishop Berkley was doubtless a great oracle; but, fortunately for mankind, when he died wisdom did not perish with him. His mantle seems to have fallen on successive philosophers, until, somehow, it has found its way to the shoulders of the Rev. Dr. Vinton. This sage has the advantage, it Point know all about war. In order to be thoroughly convinced, the novice must surrender himself to the doctrine of Bishop Berkley, and conclude that all appearances are delusions. And yet, after all, it seems strange even to a convert, which