ABSTRACT
Intellectually his career has ecclesiastical, political, social, and even philosophical aspects: chronologically it has four or five phases that must be surveyed if we are to understand him. He was born (1667) of English parents living in Ireland; and there he was educated. He was graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, with some difficulty because of his refusal to study logic, and he left Ireland for England at the time of the Revolution (1688). This first phase of his career, in which his rôle had been that of dependent poor relation, had unfortunately built up in the young man an inordinate and overbearing pride.
