Accepting the universe : $b Essays in naturalism

· 1921

..._And heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door wherein I went._ THE RUBÁIYÁT 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 conclud…

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