Dean Berkeley wrote Alciphron during his somewhat impatient stay in Newport. He wanted to get on with the Bermuda project. Students of Berkeley have been impatient with the Alciphron — too much apologetics and too little philosophy. There is one apparent exception. The fourth dialogue, "The Truth of Theism," contains a proof of God's existence. But on a closer look many have found an unexciting version of the design argument, a version easily slain by Hume. T. E. Jessop, not one to underestimate Berkeley, puts it bluntly: "… the proof is the usual one from effect to cause, not the one peculiar to Berkeley."¹