Excerpt from The Works of George Berkeley D.D, Vol. 2 of 4: Formerly Bishop of Cloyne; Including His Posthumous Works; With Prefaces, Annotations, Appendices, and an Account of His Life; Philosophical Works, 1732-33
It has been stated that the aim of this edition of Berkeley is to present a complete and accurate text with as little editorial matter as possible. One work, however, contained in this volume seemed to require special treatment. In "Alciphron" Berkeley has exhibited all the phases of contemporary religious criticism in the persons of the two infidel interlocutors; and thus allusions to well-known books and characters of the time are full and frequent. The editor has endeavoured to explain the allusions as briefly as possible, by an introductory note where the motif of any dialogue is drawn chiefly from particular works or persons; or by references in footnotes where the allusions are more casual. Were the books or persons referred to directly, this would be unnecessary; and the editor begs those who may think his notes too many or too much to consider that without some explanation certain paragraphs - such, for instance, as the third section of the fifth dialogue - must seem rather forcibly dragged in.
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