 But that God might not have given us a sense of beauty responsive to uniformity amidst variety raises the question why he did. Though it is a question that never arises for Shaftesbury, Hutcheson gives it an answer that narrows the distance between the two. As Shaftesbury had famously stressed, the universe is highly ordered—at least “Uniformity, Proportion, and Similitude [are diffused] thro all the Parts of Nature which we can observe” (Hutcheson 1726 [2004, 81]). In such a universe, “[t]he manner of Knowledge by universal Theorems … must be most convenient for Beings of limited Understanding and Power” (Hutcheson 1726 [2004, 79]). But if such is the manner of knowledge most convenient for beings such as us, a benevolent God may be expected to provide some immediate motive—a motive, that is, that does not require that we reflect on what is most convenient for us—to our pursuit of it. Because a theorem by nature possesses uniformity amidst variety—a theorem simply is the unification of various particulars under a single principle (Hutcheson 1726 [2004, 36])—it stands to reason that