Note 27 — Chapter VIII · GOOD AND BAD PRACTICE.

Dr. Holmes says of this pre-eminently talented and learned man—“Berkeley died at the age of about seventy; he might have lived longer, but his fatal illness was so sudden that there was not time enough to stir up a quart of his panacea. He was an illustrious man, but he held two very odd opinions; that tar water was everything, and that the whole material universe was nothing.”