In 1931 J. D. Mabbott doubted whether Berkeley really believed in Divine Ideas (1968:364-79). More recently, in rather similar vein, Jonathan Bennett has argued that Berkeley hardly cared whether God maintains the continuity of the tree in the quad by perceiving it when we do not. In particular, the famous argument which purports to deduce God's existence from the continuous existence of sensible things is represented by Bennett as no more than a two sentence hiccup in the course of the Three Dialoguesbetween Hylas and Philonous (Bennett 1968 and 1971).