 At first glance, however, this explanation superficially suggests that Lotze may be nothing more than a beautiful soul. Panpsychism must, at bottom, be shown to possess some truly special significance, far outstripping the utterly false assistance it would pretend to offer to the natural sciences. For assisting the science of psychology, even the very possibility of panpsychism is “wholly immaterial” (Micro, I, p. 365). Rather, Lotze asserts, to be painfully repetitive, that “nothing but the beauty of the living form [die Schönheit der lebendigen Gestalt] is made to us more intelligible by this hypothesis” (Micro, I, p. 366). But what, precisely, could this gnomic utterance be taken to mean?