I have followed the manuscript of the Commonplace Book, omitting a few repetitions of thought in the same words. Here and there Berkeley's writing is almost obliterated and difficult to decipher, apparently through accident by water in the course of his travels, when, as he mentions long after in one of his letters, several of his manuscripts were lost and others were injured.
The letters of the alphabet which are interpreted on the first page, and prefixed on the margin to some of the entries, may so far help to bring the apparent chaos of entries under a few articulate heads.
I have added some annotations here and there as they happened to occur, and these might have been multiplied indefinitely had space permitted.
Commonplace Book
I. = Introduction.
M. = Matter.
P. = Primary and Secondary qualities.
E. = Existence.