From Peter Phillips
I am glad to read that, as an Anglican priest, I may not be wholly redundant after all. Jon Cartwright's article makes me think that Bishop Berkeley's theory of immateriality may not have been so far from the mark after all. Ronald Knox's 1924 poem sums it up neatly: “There was a young man who said, ‘God, / must think it exceedingly odd / if he finds that the tree / continues to be / when there's no one about in the quad.’ REPLY: ‘Dear Sir, your astonishment's odd. / I am always about in the quad. / And that's why the tree / continues to be / since observed by, Yours faithfully, God.'”
Felindre, West Glamorgan, UK
