He has never been answered." * An idealistic monist who long puzzled the philosophers of that time with his denial of the existence of matter, but whose clever argument was finally demolished when the new empiric facts of science were philosophically generalized.
"The noblest metaphysician of them all," Ernest laughed.

"But your example is unfortunate.

As Berkeley himself attested, his metaphysics didn't work." Dr.Hammerfield was angry, righteously angry.

It was as though he had caught Ernest in a theft or a lie.
"Young man," he trumpeted, "that statement is on a par with all you have uttered to-night.

It is a base and unwarranted assumption." "I am quite crushed," Ernest murmured meekly.