On the principle of Berkeley's 'The Tree in the Quad' (or rather, the answer to it), does the eye of God – having decided that a thing deserves to be called beautiful – then keep it in existence as an object of beauty for ever? For ref, the answer ran as follows: "Dear Sir, it is not at all odd. I am always about in the Quad. And that's why that tree Never ceases to be Since observed by Yours faithfully, God".
