"Yet, pace [with all due respect] their debt to mystics, agnostic nature worshippers were not, properly speaking, mystics at all. Although sensitive to the mystery in nature, although seekers of "spiritual" exaltation in its beauties, they did not look for a deeper reality there, for any supernatural truth cloaked in natural splendor. They sought their psychic gratifications wholly within the boundaries of nature; they revered beauty, not God's beauty."
-- Without God, Without Creed, James Turner, 1985, p. 255.
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