Comment by aebtebeten

From a contemporary viewpoint, Berkeley seems to have been a bit of an edgelord in his defense of faith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_the_stone#Origin

(or am I doing him an injustice and he was running with the whole Cartesian Demon thing to see just how far he could take it?)

Mumford (a grand-advisee of Castelnuovo's) on the infamous school: https://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/qed/archive/209