The Two-Hundredth Birthday of Bishop George Berkeley, a Discourse Given At Yale College On the 12th of March, 1885
The Two-Hundredth Birthday of Bishop George Berkeley, a Discourse Given At Yale College On the 12th of March, 1885
Porter, Noah, 1811-1892
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He has seduced several of the hope- fullest young clergymen and others here, many of them well provided for, and all in the fairest way for preferment, but in England his conquests are greater, and I doubt will spread very far this winter. He showed me a little tract which he designs to publish ; and there you will see his whole scheme of a life academic, philosophical — of a college founded for Indian scholars and missionaries; where he exorbitantly proposes Digitized by VjOOQIC ^isbop George ...'Berkeley. 29 a whole hundred pounds a year for himself fifty pounds for a fellow, and ten for a student His heart will break if his deanery be not taken from him and left to your Excellency's disposal." * * * "And, therefore, I entreat your Ex- cellency to use such persuasions as will keep one of the first men of this kingdom at home, or assist him by your credit to compass his romantic design." It would seem that this missionary project, or something like it, had been in his mind ever since his return to England from the continent, and the shock which he had received from the South Sea explosion with the revelations which it had given of the individual and social corrup- tion in the Old World in respect to manners and morals and faith.
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