- H. Richard Archer, Clark Memorial Library
- Richard C. Boys, University of Michigan
- Ralph Cohen, University of California, Los Angeles
- Vinton A. Dearing, University of California, Los Angeles
ASSISTANT EDITOR
- W. Earl Britton, University of Michigan
ADVISORY EDITORS
- Emmett L. Avery, State College of Washington
- Benjamin Boyce, Duke University
- Louis Bredvold, University of Michigan
- John Butt, King's College, University of Durham
- James L. Clifford, Columbia University
- Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago
- Edward Niles Hooker, University of California, Los Angeles
- Louis A. Landa, Princeton University
- Samuel H. Monk, University of Minnesota
- Earnest Mossner, University of Texas
- James Sutherland, University College, London
- H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
- Edna C. Davis, Clark Memorial Library
INTRODUCTION
The Letter to Dion, Mandeville's last publication, was, in form, a reply to Bishop Berkeley's Alciphron: or, the Minute Philosopher. In Alciphron, a series of dialogues directed against "free thinkers" in general, Dion is the presiding host and Alciphron and Lysicles are the expositors of objectionable doctrines. Mandeville's Fable of the Bees is attacked in the Second Dialogue, where Lysicles expounds some Mandevillian views but is theologically an atheist, politically a revolutionary, and socially a leveller. In the Letter to Dion, however, Mandeville assumes that Berkeley is charging him with all of these views, and accuses Berkeley of unfairness and misrepresentation.