288 Dean Berkeley’* schemeexcnniwh

XXII. This being so ; the next questsis, Whether God Almighty (a Being of ' tn fnite veracity) would have made it n ecei&rffor all those separate spirits (whom we camen) to pursue and attain a knowledge, ieor more, or at least an experience, of the nature of a substance which no way existed ^fancying that a great part of their ease ^comfort depended upon this ; and haveconstituted them, that all of this species 0Beings in the world, not excepting one, ^verily persuaded, that they are contin^'conversant with this substance, and th^,enters into the composition: the quejlto^ lS ’I fay, Whether this Being could have P es vformed such a constant and universd pit cS ^juggling (u) ? If it could answer a good s,

msliter vel eminenier contineatura Notandumque ^ioma tarn neceffario ejfe admittendum , ut ab ipsonlum rerurn tarn senstbilium , qudm insensibiliurn cS & ndependeat.

(a) It is extremely absurd to suppose that God ^mighty should have given us so costly an a PP ara sf,^senses, as Anatomy discovers ours to be, especially 0 Jing and hearing ; made us capable of investig^ 101 ^',.nature and method of sensation; of seeing the c °^ c ‘ c