Father Frederick Copleston's monumental History of Philosophy is now firmly established as a standard work surpassing in scale any general history of Western philosophy available in English. This fifth volume of the series covers the whole scope of British philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the main discussion is concerned with the giants of that period Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley and Hume other movements of far-reaching significance receive extensive treatment, among them the Cambridge Platonist, Ethicists such as Shaftebury, Mandeville, and Paley, the Deists and the Scottish philosophers of common sense who succeeded Hume. As in his past volumes, Father Copleston displays an ever-present awareness of the continuity in the history of philosophy and he present cogent insights into the influences which varied philosophers of this period exerted on one another.