"Berkeley, after abolishing matter, is only saved from complete subjectivism by a use of God which most subsequent philosophers have regarded as illegitimate."
— George Berkeley

January 1, 1970

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Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy (1945), Book Three, "Modern Philosophy", Part I, "From the Renaissance to Hume", Ch. I: "General Characteristics", p. 494