BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)

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BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735) , Irish divine and

bishop

Cork

and Ross, was born in Co. Dublin, not

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

after the Restoration. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1682, and after ten years' residence obtained a fellowship. In 1699 he was made provost of the college, and in the same year published his

Letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

in answer to a Book entitled "Christianity not Mysterious," which was recognized as the ablest reply yet written to Toland. It expounds in germ the whole of his later theory of analogy. In 1710 he was made

bishop

Cork

and Ross, which post he held till his death in 1735. In 1713 he had become somewhat notorious from his vigorous pamphleteering attack on the fashion of drinking healths, especially " to the glorious and immortal memory." His two most important works are the

Procedure

PROCEDURE (Fr. procedure, from Lat. procedere, to go for-ward)

, Extent, and Limits of the HumanUnderstanding (1728), an able though sometimes captious critique of Locke's essay, and Things Divine and Supernatural conceived by Analogy with Things Natural and Human, more briefly referred to as the Divine Analogy (1733). The

doctrine

DOCTRINE

of analogy was intended as a reply to the deistical conclusions that had been

drawn

DRAWN

from Locke's theory of knowledge. Browne holds that not only God's essence, but his attributes are inexpressible by our ideas, and can only be conceived analogically. This view was vigorously assailed as leading to atheism by Berkeley in his Alciphron (Dialogue iv.), and a

great

GREAT

part of the Divine Analogy is occupied with a defence against that criticism. The bishop. emphasizes the distinction between metaphor and analogy; though the conceived attributes are not thought. as they are in themselves, yet there is a reality corresponding in some way to our ideas of them. His analogical arguments resemble those found in the Bampton Lectures of Dean Mansel. Browne was a man of abstemious habits, charitable disposition, and impressive eloquence. He died on the 27th of August 1735.

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