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90 his family but what was bought within his diocese. When Plutarch was asked why he resided in bis native town, so obscure and small, he replied, "I stay lest it should grow less." Bishop Berkeley was actuated by a similar feeling, which we could wish were strongly impressed on the breasts of every Irishman of rank and fortune, and that they would reside in their own country, encourage it by the expenditure of their fortune, improve the moral and peaceable habits of the people by their example, "be a terror to them that do evil, and a praise to them that do well."

The active mind of Bishop Berkeley even in this retirement could not slumber: he continued his studies with unceasing application: and a circumstance which occurred amongst his friends engaged him in a controversy with the mathematicians. Mr. Addison had some years before given him an account of the behaviour of their common friend, Dr. Garth, in his last illness, which was equally distressing to both these advocates of revealed religion; for when Mr. Addison went to see the doctor, and began to talk to him seriously of another world; "Surely, Addison," replied he, "I have good reason not to believe these trifles, since my friend Dr. Halley, who has dealt so much in demonstration, has assured me, that the doctrines of Christianity are incomprehensible, and the religion itself an imposture." Bishop Berkeley therefore addressed to him, as to an infidel mathematician, a discourse entitled the "Analyst," in order to shew that mysteries in faith were unjustly objected to by mathematicians, since they themselves admitted greater mysteries in their science, and even falsehoods, of which the bishop attempted to shew that the doctrine of fluxions furnished an example. Various papers were written on the subject of fluxions, and the chief answer to the bishop was by Philalethes Cantabrigiensis, generally supposed to have been Dr. Jurin, who published a treatise, called "Geometry no Friend to Infidelity?" 1734. In reply to this appeared