2^8 Dean Berkeley V scheme exd^ ne ^^
Now (to observe here the extent of this _of doubting) this argument will equally i"spiritual substance to be a contradi$ lonterms , as well as matter: for we ate p erC jpient of nothing but our own perception 8 311ideas, with respect to the foul of anotheras well as with respect to his body ; or nbe true in either, it is true in both.and perceptivity, the only properties wh efwe infer the existence of spiritual fubst 3 * 1 ,^are not that substance, but qualities belo°p 6to it, any more than figure , motion , ^
corporeal substance. If then this argn^ j sis good for any thing in the first cafe, 6as good in the second; and if it dcinoOmatter out of existence, it equally d 6 * 5 ^strates all substance out of existence, ^the mind thus percipient, without eX c ®Pthe Deity himself. So that, brought t0 * tS ^tnuine and undissembled issue, it ends itl ^6hind of knowledge mentioned once or ^above, called Egomifm (/). Dean ^
(i) §uelques Spinosijles sentant que Fevidence is ^ It$pe a tout moment, dans les pretendues demonfirf 0 ^
Maitre, font tombesdans une espece de Pyrrhonism
nomtne F Egomisme, ou. chacun se croit leseul I'
Mr. Ramsay’^ Discourse upon Mythology,
near the end,
J till 11
k,