 It is in arguing for the internality of the power of discerning beauty that Hutcheson’s departure from Shaftesbury begins to show. Shaftesbury, it will be recalled, argues that the discernment of beauty is internal (or mental) on the grounds that the objects of beauty necessarily are: mind alone can discern beauty because mind alone is beautiful, external objects managing a degree of beauty only by having a bit of mind imprinted on them. But Hutcheson cannot make this argument because he does not think that objects of beauty are necessarily internal. Hutcheson does follow Shaftesbury in maintaining that things are beautiful in virtue of their proportion or order (Hutcheson’s preferred and more precise term is “uniformity amidst variety”) and he may follow Shaftesbury in thinking all proportion or order to be the effect of mind. But he importantly does not follow Shaftesbury in inferring from the premise that things are beautiful owing to the effect of mind to the conclusion that mind alone is beautiful.