nature-mystic

It is as fatal in result as the opposite error of deliberately arrested development, which, being attuned to the wonderful rhythms of natural life, is content with this increase of sensibility; and, becoming a "nature-mystic," asks no more.

Practical Mysticism 1875-1941 1915

It is as fatal in result as the opposite error of deliberately arrested development, which, being attuned to the wonderful rhythms of natural life, is content with this increase of sensibility; and, becoming a "nature-mystic," asks no more.

Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People Evelyn Underhill 1908

And what is this but to claim for the mass of men, in varying but definite degrees, a capacity for the experiences of the nature-mystic?

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

Yes, the nature-mystic might well be content to rest his case on the influences of a calm at sea or a peaceful sunset.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

But even this expansion of meaning does not satisfy the nature-mystic.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

We turn to a very different form of speculation, yet one equally favourable to the essential contention of the nature-mystic -- that of Schopenhauer, a philosopher whose system is attracting closer and keener attention as the years pass by.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

But the modern nature-mystic cannot rest content with the last line.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

There is, however, another aspect of the charge of anthropomorphism -- one which is more difficult to deal with because it affects at times the nature-mystic himself.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

Now every word of this passage may be welcomed by the nature-mystic without his thereby yielding his contention that mountains and rivers and forests have a definite and immanent objective significance of their own.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889

The nature-mystic avers that what he deemed a recurrence of meaningless, if pleasant, "well-worn thoughts" was really an approach to the heart of nature from which an imperfect understanding of the place and function of science had carried him away.

Nature Mysticism John Edward Mercer 1889