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NATURE MYSTICISM

BY

J. EDWARD MERCER, D.D., OXON.
BISHOP OF TASMANIA

LONDON
GEORGE ALLEN & COMPANY, Ltd.
44 & 45 RATHBONE PLACE

1913

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PREFACE

The aims of this study of Nature Mysticism, and the methodsadopted for attaining them, are sufficiently described in the introductorychapter. It may be said, by way of special preface, that the nature mystic hereportrayed is essentially a "modern." He is assumed to have accepted thefundamentals of the hypothesis of evolution. Accordingly, his sympathy with thepast is profound: so also is his sense of the reality and continuity of humandevelopment, physical, psychic, and mystical. Moreover, he tries to be abreastof the latest critical and scientific conclusions. Imperfections manifold willbe discovered in the pages that follow; but the author asks that a percentage ofthem may be attributed to the difficulties of writing in Tasmania and publishingat the antipodes.

J. E. M.

Bishop's Court, Hobart,
March, 1912.

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Chapter I.	Introductory	1
Chapter II.	Nature, and the Absolute	7
Chapter III.	Mystic Intuition and Reason	15
Chapter IV.	Man and Nature	23
Chapter V.	Mystic Receptivity	30
Chapter VI.	Development and Discipline of Intuition	38
Chapter VII.	Nature not Symbolic	45
Chapter VIII.	The Charge of Anthropomorphism	54
Chapter IX.	The Immanent Idea	65
Chapter X.	Animism, Ancient and Modern	71
Chapter XI.	Will and Consciousness in Nature	79
Chapter XII.	Mythology	90
Chapter XIII.	Poetry and Nature Mysticism	97
Chapter XIV.	The Beautiful and the Ugly	106
Chapter XV.	Nature Mysticism and the Race	117
Chapter XVI.	Thales	123
Chapter XVII.	The Waters under the Earth	129
Chapter XVIII.	Springs and Wells	138
Chapter XIX.	Brooks and Streams	145
Chapter XX.	Rivers and Life	151
Chapter XXI.	Rivers and Death	158
Chapter XXII.	The Ocean	165
Chapter XXIII.	Waves	172
Chapter XXIV.	Still Waters	179
Chapter XXV.	Anaximenes and the Air	187
Chapter XXVI.	Winds and Clouds	192
Chapter XXVII.	Heracleitus and the Cosmic Fire	203
Chapter XXVIII.	Fire and the Sun	211
Chapter XXIX.	Light and Darkness	222