Nature Mysticism

The aims of this study of Nature Mysticism, and the methods
adopted for attaining them, are sufficiently described in the
introductory chapter. It may be said, by way of special preface,
that the nature mystic here portrayed is essentially a “modern.”
He is assumed to have accepted the fundamentals of the
hypothesis of evolution. Accordingly, his sympathy with the past
is profound: so also is his sense of the reality and continuity of
human development, physical, psychic, and mystical. Moreover,
he tries to be abreast of the latest critical and scientific
conclusions. Imperfections manifold will be discovered in the
pages that follow; but the author asks that a percentage of them
may be attributed to the difficulties of writing in Tasmania and
publishing at the antipodes