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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
essions made on them and the inferences Chap XXIII.} of reason. Far from being skeptical, he sought to give to faith the highest certainty, by deriving all Gulian C. Verplanck Sir Jas. Mackintosh. Dugald Stewart Berkeley's Works knowledge from absolutely perfect intelligence—from God. If he could but expel matter out of nature; If, in a materialist age, he could establish the supremacy of spirit as the sole creative power and active being, —then would the slavish or corrupt theories of Epicurus and of Hobbes be cut up by the roots and totally extirpated. Thus he sought gently to unbind the ligaments which chain the soul to the earth, and to assist her flight upwards towards the sovereign good. For the application of such views, Europe of the eighteenth century offered no theatre. He longed to divest himself of European dignities; and, regarding the well-being of all men of all nations as the design in which the actions of each individual should concur, he repaired to the new he