Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous
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full text: Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous George Berkeley 1713 Copyright 1996, James Fieser (jfieser@utm.edu). See end note for details on copyright and editing conventions. This text file is based on the 1910 Harvard Classics edition of Berkeley's <Three Dialogues>. Pagenation follows T.E. Jessop's 1949 edition of <Three Dialogues>, in <The Works of George Berkeley>, Vol. 2. This is a working draft; please report errors.[1] * * * * THREE DIALOGUES Between HYLAS AND PHILONOUS The Design of which is Plainly to Demonstrate the Reality and Perfection of HUMAN KNOWLEDGE The Incorporeal Nature of the SOUL And the Immediate Providence of a DEITY In Opposition to SCEPTICS AND ATHEISTS Also to Open a Method for Rendering the Sciences More Easy, Useful, and Compendious {171} THE FIRST DIALOGUE <Philonous>. Good morrow, Hylas: I did not expect to find you abroad so early. <Hylas>. It is indeed something unusual; but my thoughts were so taken up with a subject I was discoursing of last night, that finding I could not sleep, I resolved to rise and take a turn in the garden. <Phil>. It happened well, to let you see what innocent and agreeable pleasures you lose every morning. Can there be a pleasanter time of the day, or a more delightful season of the year? That purple sky, those wild but sweet notes of birds, the fragrant bloom upon the trees and flowers, the gentle influence of the rising sun, these and a thousand nameless beauties of nature inspire the soul with secret transports; its faculties too being at this time fresh and lively, are fit for those meditations, which the solitude of a garden and tranquillity of the morning naturally dispose us to. But I am afraid I interrupt your thoughts: for you seemed very intent on something. <Hyl>. It is true, I was, and shall be obliged to you if you will permit me to go on in the same vein; not that I would by any means deprive myself of your company, for my thoughts always flow more easily in conversation with a friend, than wh…