;andtheprobabilitiesinfavouroftheincreaseofmiserywiththeprolongationofexistence, ; , socialties, familyaffections, commoncompanionship, mustbeabandoned; themostnaturalappetites, eventhatforfood, mustbesuppressed, oratleastminimized; untilallthatremainedofamanwastheimpassive,extenuated, mendicantmonk, self-hypnotisedintocataleptictrances, whichthedeludedmystictookforforetastesofthefinalunionwithBrahma.
——evenofthetenuityofthatwhichhasneitherqualitynorenergyandofwhichnopredicatewhatevercanbeasserted—, Brahmawasnottobetrusted;solongasentitywasthere, itmightconceivablyresumethewearyroundofevolution, , seeingthatitsuppliesthewantinghalfofBishopBerkeley'swell-knownidealisticargument.
Grantingthepremises, IamnotawareofanyescapefromBerkeley'sconclusion, thatthe "substance"ofmatterisametaphysicalunknownquantity,-existenceofasubstanceofmindisequallyarguable; andthattheresultoftheimpartialapplicationsofhisreasoningsisthereductionoftheAlltocoexistencesandsequencesofphenomena,; thoughitmustbeadmittedthat, ifsomeofBerkeley'sreasoningsrespectingthenatureofspiritarepushedhome, theyreachprettymuchthesameconclusion.[8]
