To Be Is To Be Perceived

Casting An Eye On The Education Of Children, From Whence I Can Make A Judgment Of My Own, I Observe They Are Instructed In Religious Matters Before They Can Reason About Them, And Consequently That All Such Instruction Is Nothing Else But Filling The Tender Mind Of A Child With Prejudices.

Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way; The Four First Acts Already Past, A Fifth Shall Close The Drama With The Day: Time's Noblest Offspring Is The Last.

Whatever The World Thinks, He Who Hath Not Much Meditated Upon God, The Human Soul, And The Summum Bonum, May Possibly Make A Thriving Earthworm, But Will Most Indubitably Make A Sorry Patriot And A Sorry Statesman.

What Doubts, What Hypotheses, What Labyrinths Of Amusement, What Fields Of Disputation, What An Ocean Of False Learning, May Be Avoided By That Single Notion Of Immaterialism!

Few Men Think, Yet All Will Have Opinions.