Saturday 9 September 2023

Contemplating an Empty Universe

From George Berkeley’s (1685-1753) Commonplace Book, in The Works of George Berkeley D.D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne: Including His Posthumous Works, 4 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871), I, p. 59:

’Tis wondrous to contemplate ye World empty’d of all intelligences.