In 1728 George Berkeley, the Irish philosopher and Anglican priest, came to America in the hope of founding a university in Bermuda and converting the Indians. He never reached Bermuda, where within a few years no Indians were left. Instead he settled in Newport, Rhode Island, one of the few places in New England that was hospitable to Anglicans. There his lively mind and sympathetic spirit involved him in a great variety of interests, though he stayed only thirty-three months.
This book is a graceful snd authoritative account of an important episode in the life of a major philosopher and influential figure in the religious life of colonial New England.
- ISBN10 0300023944
- ISBN13 9780300023947
- Publish Date 10 September 1979 (first published 11 December 1959)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 May 1998
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 184
- Language English