# Accepting the universe

Author: Burroughs, John, 1837-1921

Genre: Science

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78230

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Accepting+the+universe+Burroughs&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A wheel may have many spokes, but can have but one hub. So I may say of this volume of mine that there are many themes and chapter-headings, but there is but one central thought into which they all converge, and that is that the universe is good, and that it is our rare good fortune to form a part of it. As this collection of essays does not aim to be a systematic treatise on any one theme, but rather a series of sallies, excursions, into the world of semi-philosophical speculation, there is inevitably much repetition; there may even be some contradiction. But I have concluded to let them stand, as I find myself an interested spectator of the workings of my own mind when, in following dif...

## Chapters

- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/accepting-the-universe-78230/chapters/20/index.md)