this morning, is all I could desire, and, if a nearer acquaintance is going to disappoint and disgust, let me not enter, but depart from this ‘Mount of Ascension’ carrying away the picture already imprinted on my heart.” [Viewing from a distance but not close up] William Mason Turner: “On account of this ubiquity of holy objects and curiosi-es, the whole church and its wonders necessarily appear as a sham, and the high religious aw with which we should view these wonders, subsides into a stoical, indifferent credulity, which plainly express our opinion of everything shown us, as humbug.” How do these viewpoints complicate the no-on of authen-city?