J. E. M.

Bishop's Court, Hobart,
_March_, 1912.



CONTENTS

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