Note 60 — THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

Berkeley, in his Minute Philosopher, attacks Dr. Halley, who had objected to faith and mysteries in religion, on this score; and contends that the mathematician, no less than the theologian, is obliged to presume on certain postulates, or to resort, before he could establish a single theorem, to a formal definition of those undefinable and hypothetical existences, points, lines, and surfaces; and, according to the ingenious and learned Bishop of Cloyne, solids would fare no better than superficials in this war of words and captious contradiction.