![]() ![]() And as several of these are observed to accompany each other, they come to be marked by one name, and so to be reputed as one thing. Smelling furnishes me with odours the palate with tastes and hearing conveys sounds to the mind in all their variety of tone and composition. ![]() By touch I perceive hard and soft, heat and cold, motion and resistance, and of all these more and less either as to quantity or degree. By sight I have the ideas of light and colours, with their several degrees and variations. OBJECTS OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE.–It is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either IDEAS actually imprinted on the senses or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination–either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways. A link to the complete text can be found below in the Citation and Use notes. It omits the Preface, the Introduction, and sections 34 through 156. ![]() Editor’s Note: Below are the first 33 sections of the main body of George Berkeley’s A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. ![]()
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