Excerpt from Dedication of the Krauth Memorial Library The labors Dr. Krauth undertook in pursuance of his duties as Professor of Philosophy are reflected in his library, and were second only to his studies of theology and closely related to it. His general attitude was sympa thetic to the Scotch Philosophy and the Natural Realismof Reid, the founder of the school, in opposition to Ideal ism, no less than Materialism and philosophic Scepticism. But every man of that school has felt that Bishop Berkeley, the great Irish idealist, is the first enemy they have to meet and refute, if David Hume, the Scottish sceptic, is the second. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.