The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why should they affect to abuse human reason, to disparage natural religion, to traduce the philosophers as they universally do?


The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision (ed. 1732)


The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why...

The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why...

The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why...

The love of truth, virtue, and the happiness of mankind are specious pretexts, but not the inward principles that set divines at work; else why...