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"Augustan"
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"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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"Church of Ireland"
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Work title:
"Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher"
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Date: 1732
"Gorgias hath gone further, demonstrating man to be a piece of clock-work or machine; and that thought or reason are the same thing as the impulse of one ball against another."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)