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44 of the fashionable specific. But he by no means forgot his duties as bishop and as citizen. In the last years of his life he wrote several pamphlets directed against the Catholics, and those Maxims concerning Patriotism which are, as it were, his civic testament.

In 1751 his health broke, misfortunes came, and he decided to go to Oxford with his son George. He left Cloyne in 1752; but he was not destined long to enjoy the learned life of the university city, for he died of paralysis on the twentieth of January, 1753, amid the sincere regret of all who had known him.

He was one of the most lovable of men. His moral qualities were highly esteemed during his life, while the full value of his teachings was not recognized until much later. For eighteenth-century England he stood as the model of the active and cultivated churchman and the unselfish citizen, so full of initiative and of enthusiasm for religion and for the common weal that he might readily be pardoned for his curious philosophical ideas.

Those who regard Berkeley merely as a philosopher are but slightly acquainted with him. Berkeley was a philosopher also, just as he was