Excerpt from The Works of George Berkeley, Vol. 1 of 2: Including His Letters to Thomas Prior, Dean Gervais, Mr. Pope, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of His Life When the Principles of Human Knowledge were first published, the ingenious author sent copies of the work to Dr. Clarke and Mr. Whiston. What effect it pro duced upon the latter, the reader may possibly be entertained with learning from his own words Memoirs of Dr. Clarke, page 79-81. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.