The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne ed. by A. A. Luce and T. E. Jessop, The Life of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne by A. A. Luce (review)

BOOK REVIEWS 165 or superiority-complexes or still something else, are cases again of missing what God wants us to do or be. Here again, the most normal man is the saint. For the relation of creature to Creator is the basic value in human life, and all neuroses can be traced back to the .failure to discover this relation and to behave accordingly. This is a challenging thesis, and Jugnet sums it up in a challenging way. Scholars will be glad to have all of this dialectic of Allers gathered together in one book. Yet Jugnet's achievement is of more than academic interest, and it is to be warmly hoped that his book will soon find its way into a competent English translation. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana VINCENT EDwARD SMITH The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne. Edited by A. A. LuCE and T. E. JEssoP. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. Vol. I. Philosophical Com1nentaries. Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision, Theory of Vision Vindicated. Edited by A. A. Luce. 1948. Pp. 287. Vol. IT. The Principles of Hurnan Knowledge, First Draft of Introduction to the Principles, Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Philosophical Correspondence with Johnson. Edited by T. E. Jessop. 1949. Pp. 302. 30/. Vol. ill. Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher. Edited by T. E. Jessop. 1950. Pp. 343. 30/. Vol. IV. De Motu (with English translation), The Analyst, A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics, Reasons for not replying to Mr. Walton's" Full Anstoer," .Arithemetica and Miscellanea Mathematica, Of lnfinites, Letters on Vesuvius, on Petrifactions, and on Earthquakes; Description of the Cave of Dunmore. Edited by A. A. Luce. 1951. Pp. 273. 80/. The Life of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne. A. A. LuCE. Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1949. Pp. 272 with index. 25/. With the approach of the bi-centenary of George Berkeley's death (1753) there is likely to be renewed interest on both sides of the Atlantic in the famous Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, whose life combined astonishing proportions of far-sighted and high-minded action with unusual philosophical and literary abilities. For these reasons, the volumes noticed here are opportune and deserve recognition not only by the professionally concerned 166 BOOK REVIEWS few but also by a wider circle of readers who will find Berkeley the man. more intriguing than his excursions into philosophy and science. :For these last mentioned, the Reverend A. A. Luce's The Life of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, is bound to prove attractive. They may know the work of J. Stock· (Life of George Berkeley, 1784} and A. C. Fraser (Life and Letters of George Berkeley, 1871} and appreciate B. Rand's Berkeley and Percival (1914}, the later studies of Hone and Rossi (Bishop Berkeley: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy, 19~3) and John Wild's George Berkeley (1936); they should be happy to greet Dr. Luce's version. From the first he resolved to keep the biographical element uppermost, and he has succeeded as well as anyone could who has to deal with a man like George Berkeley, whose life was so intermingled with his philosophical, religious and scientific interests. Dr. Luce has produced a book which I should hesitate to call a definitive study but which, with all his adulation of Berkeley, qualifies as the best "life" to date. The author is acquainted, of course, with previous studies of Berkeley, and he uses them with due tribute and critical appreciation. But his account is no mere retelling of an old story. Among the new material he turned up are over forty of Berkeley's letters. This alone would make his work significant. But there is the added factor of his situation as a Senior Fellow in Trinity College, Dublin. For years he lived where Berkeley lived and taught where he taught, and he has visited the scenes of the Bishop's labors in the New World. Dr. Luce makes no secret of his admiration for Berkeley, and while this leads to creating something of a nimbus, a biography without enthusiasm for its subject is likely to be bland and mediocre -attributes not found in...