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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.1

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  1. Abbe Pierre Desfontaines, quoted in Harry M. Bracken, The Early Reception of Berkeley’s Immaterialism, Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague (1965) p. 3

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Olscamp, P.J. (1969). Introduction. In: The Moral Philosophy of George Berkeley. Archives Internationales D’histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3199-8_1

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