Excerpt from The Works of George Berkeley D. D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne, Including His Posthumous Works, Vol. 2 of 4: With Prefaces, Annotations, Appendices, and an Account of His Life; Philosophical Works, 1732-33 Great Britain, offered by him to the world before the end of 1721 the eloquent lamentation of a fervid social idealist, biographically important as a forecast of its author's career in middle life and after. It was the first symptom of practical endeavour to realise around him a state of society nearer to his own lofty ideal; the Cassandra wail of a sorrowful prophet, who soon after turned his eye of hope to more distant regions. In one Of his letters to Lord Percival, he tells that in the year after his return from Italy, he had made up his mind to spend the remainder of his life in Bermuda, in order to establish there a missionary college 'for promoting reformation' of manners amongst the English in our western'plantations, and for the propa gation of the Gospel amongst the American savages.' The next seven years were largely given to negotiations and preparations with a view to exchanging life in an Old World of social decay for an American Utopia. In the interval he had been advanced to the Deanery Of Derry. A multiplicity of affairs had arrested his pen, for in those ten years his only publication was the few pages of A Proposal for the better supplying of Churches in our Foreign Plantations, issued in I725, and the Verses on the pmspect of Planting Arts and Sciences in America. 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.