BERKELEY'S THEORY OF VISION VINDICATED

In Mr. Dugald Stewart's *Dissertation on the Progress of Metaphysical Philosophy* he says of Lord Shaftesbury's work entitled Characteristics— "It seemed to have the power of changing the temper of its critics. It provoked the amiable Berkeley to a harshness equally unwonted and unwarranted; while it softened the rugged Warburton so far as to dispose the fierce, yet not altogether ungenerous, polemic to price an enemy in the very heat of conflict." To this passage is appended the following note:— "Berkeley's *Minute Philosopher*, Dialogue 3.; but especially his *Theory of Vision Vindicated*, L…