It forces on him its character and appearance. And nature includes the mental processes of its inhabitants - body and mind not just depend on each other but is one. The metaphysical may just be that which we still don't understand and thus made mystical. God may be THE big picture behind nature. If you contemplate it, it becomes something else.
Every generation is a continuation but also something else unprecedented in human consciousness.
The value of a work resides precisely in what it is not.