Higher abstractions give meaning to experience. Rationalism, opposed to mysticism. Even peace with God is tinged with respectful fear. Man cannot be the measure of things - puny before the universe. St. Francis , Rousseau, Diderot.
Nature is absolutely good.
He is aware enough of sin for a swagger to be present in his indifference toward it. Clear sense of good and bad, if not actually sin. Pessimistic - no heaven. This integrity of the instinctive reactions, this freedom from all moral sophistry and strain, gives a pathetic dignity to ancient feeling. And this quality Whitman's outpourings have not got.