The Works of George Berkeley D.D. Formerly Bishop of Cloyne Including his Posthumous Works With Prefaces, Annotations, Appendices, and An Account of his Life, by Alexander Campbell Fraser Hon. D.C.L., Oxford Hon. LL.D. Glasgow and Edinburgh; Emeritus Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh In Four Volumes Vol. 1: Philosophical Works, 1705-21 Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1901 CONTENTS Preface George Berkeley, By The Editor Errata Commonplace Book. Mathematical, Ethical, Physical, And Metaphysical Editor’s Preface To The Commonplace Book Commonplace Book An Essay Towards A New Theory Of Vision Editor’s Preface To The Essay Towards A New Theory Of Vision Dedication An Essay Towards A New Theory Of Vision An Appendix To The Essay On Vision A Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge Editor’s Preface To The Treatise Concerning The Principles Of Human Knowledge Dedication The Preface Introduction Part First 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 Editor’s Preface Dedication The Preface The First Dialogue The Second Dialogue The Third Dialogue De Motu: Sive; De Motus Principio Et Natura, Et De Causa Communicationis Motuum Editor’s Preface To De Motu De Motu Footnotes PREFACE [Frontispiece] More than thirty years ago I was honoured by a request to prepare a complete edition of the Works of Bishop Berkeley, with Notes, for the Clarendon Press, Oxford. That edition, which contains many of his writings previously unpublished, appeared in 1871. It was followed in 1874 by a volume of annotated Selections from his philosophical works; and in 1881 I prepared a small volume on “Berkeley” for Blackwood’s “Philosophical Classics.”