A Philosophical Lunch.

But Hume was now frail and replied that the fact Of his debt to George Berkeley was no cause to act: "A statement of is cannot lead on to ought, And the journey to England would kill me, it's thought." In seventeen hundred and seventy three - The flow'ring of Britain's Philosophy - George Berkeley'd been dead for nigh on twenty year And his friends thought a jolly would give them some cheer. So Bentham was left to toast Berkeley alone And to ponder upon some ideas of his own; He'd done right to plan and to write to his friends - Utility lies in the good of our ends. [Extracted from the article]