 A consequence of the view that the divine mind is the source of all beauty is that beauty is not relative to human nature merely, but is absolute and real. Indeed, given Shaftesbury’s pantheistic leanings, things turn out, on his view, to be beautiful quite literally from the point of view of the universe. A further consequence is that beauty, inhering only in mind or in its reflection, cannot be grasped by any bodily sense, but only by the mind itself: