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George Berkeley in America (Paperback)
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George Berkeley in America (Paperback)
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In 1728 George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher and Anglican priest,
came to America in the hope of founding a university in Bermuda and
converting the Indians. He never reached Bermuda, where within a
few years no Indians were left. Instead he settled in Newport,
Rhode Island, one of the few places in New England that was
hospitable to Anglicans. There his lively mind and sympathetic
spirit involved him in a great variety of interests, though he
stayed only thirty-three months. "Westward the Course of Empire
takes its Way," Berkeley wrote, and these words inspired Americans
both as British colonists and later as citizens of a new nation.
Berkeley, in spite of his disappointment over the much-vexed
Bermuda project, never flagged in his concern for the spiritual and
intellectual life of the New World. The presence of the
distinguished churchman gave heart to embattled Anglicans in
Puritan New England. Through his close friendship with New Haven's
Samuel Johnson, Berkeley did much to encourage both that faith and
the town's recently founded college. Harvard also benefited from
his generosity. But Berkeley's enduring influence on the cultural
life of America is attested all the way from Yale's Berkeley
College to Berkeley, California, the site of another great
university. This book is a graceful and authoritative account of an
important episode in the life of a major philosopher and
influential figure in the religious life of colonial New England.
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