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Although the greater length and detail of Berkeley's arguments, combined with his grace of literary style, make his works more desirable for the general introduction to idealism, Collier's book is of real value to the student in connection with the study of Berkeley. The "Clavis" gives in conclusive form Berkeley's chief arguments. It adds, moreover, two of the arguments which Kant later made famous. More than this, the two systems together show how an idealistic theory of the universe was an inevitable result of the thought of the early eighteenth century.