Excerpt from A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley, at the age of fifteen, entered Trinity College, Dublin, March 21, 1700, with which he was connected until 1713. He obtained a fellowship in 1707. Peter Browne, subsequently Bishop of Cork, was the Provost of Trinity. Locke's 'essay concerning Human Understanding, ' and the writings of Bacon, Descartes, Malebranche, and Newton, were diligently studied at that time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.