Alciphron (book)

In it, he suggested that freethinking, by damaging Protestantism, would leave England open to conversion by Roman Catholic missionaries.

Containing an apology for the Christian religion, against those who are called free-thinkers, printed in London by J. Tonson in 2 volumes.

The book was begun while Berkeley was living at Whitehall Farm, Rhode Island, and then finished when he came back to London in 1731.

[5] The book was criticised by a letter in the Daily Postboy (September 1732) to whom Berkeley replied in his Theory of Vision (1733).

Francis Hutchenson's philosophical criticism appeared in the fourth edition of his Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1738).