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From the Introduction:
"Was the universe a product of the mind, so that it & the experience of it, must illustrate the mind's axiom's? Or did the universe exist independently; were our infrangible axioms no more at bottom, than our recognitions of the special kind order which we happened to have discovered pervading that universe, thus showing no more than illustrations of our inability to grasp the possibility of any other order?
"That question was never answered...
"...An Irishman, Bishop Berkeley through into the philosophic duck pond a boulder of such magnitude that the resulting commotion endures in ripples to this day. He asked an entirely different question:
"If sensations such as those of color, feeling PLUS their derivatives of memory-images, associated 'ideas', concepts & the like, were thr sole bases of our knowledge - the only objects with which we were, or could be directly aquainted with - WHAT EVIDENCE DID WE HAVE THAT THERE EXISTED ANY SUBSTANTIAL, NON-MENTAL WORLD AT ALL?"