Berkeley

George, Bishop of Cloyne, is a historical figure in the 18th century on account of his self sacrificing philanthropy and his genius. He was born in 1685, near Kilkenny. At the age of eleven he went to the Duke of Ormond's School, and from there to Trinity College, Dublin, — where he stayed thirteen years. II is three books E ay towards Human a New Theory of Vision, Treatise on the Principles of Knowledge, and Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous—set moves human thought on the ultimate questions of our life and its surroundings. His ‘new principle,’ that the world which we see and can touch, is not an abstract independent substance, senses—was but is the very world that is presented to our for a long time mis* construed*as the paradox that matter has no perceivable existence. Berkeley tried to persuade the House of Commons to allow a grant for the building of a college at the Bermudas, but the consent unwillingly given was afterwards withdrawn. While waiting at Rhode Island for that consent, he wrote Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher, the most finished of his works.