Beauty

Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? No. Beauty is in the object which imposes itself on the eye. We see not just the object but the beauty contained therein. Now we all know this almost as clearly as we know that 3 is the square root of 9. A good way to understand this is the following. I learned this from one of C.S. Lewis' books. I believe it was The Abolition of Man. When we see a waterfall or let's say a majestic mountain, if we say how majestic that mountain is are we just saying something about our feelings or something about the object? We are saying something about the object. We aren't saying we have majestic feelings. We know this because when we look at the mountain we are humbled before the beauty of the mountain. In fact it is because we are having feelings of humility before the majesty of the mountain that we know it is not our feelings. If it were we'd say how humble the mountain is. And we in fact say just the opposite. The object imposes it's beauty on us. Isn't it great that we can be touched by objects outside of ourselves? Enjoy!