If they are, we end where the pagan nature worship ended.

Because the earth is kind, we can imitate all her cruelties.

Because sexuality is sane, we can all go mad about sexuality.
Mere optimism had reached its insane and appropriate termination.

The theory that everything was good had become an orgy of everything that was bad.
On the other side our idealist pessimists were represented by the old remnant of the Stoics.

Marcus Aurelius and his friends had really given up the idea of any god in the universe and looked only to the god within.