Accepting the universe (Registro nro. 118950)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| Classification number | BD |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Burroughs, John, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1921 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Accepting the universe |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-03-17 |
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| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Accepting the Universe by John Burroughs is a collection of essays in naturalism written in the early 20th century. It advances a radical, non-theological optimism that urges trust in an impersonal, law-governed cosmos, treating struggle, waste, and pain as the price and engine of evolution. The work probes Nature’s beauty and terror, rejects anthropomorphic providence and human-centered teleology, and seeks a durable faith grounded in the constitution of things rather than in creeds.<br/><br/>The opening of the book sets out this thesis in a preface and the first essays: the universe is, in sum, good and worth accepting, even though its fixed laws and instability produce hardships. The author contrasts Nature’s impartial “Providence” with the comforting but misleading idea of a parental God, arguing that conflict and apparent evil are relative, often disciplinary, and overwhelmingly outweighed by beneficence. He critiques poetic and theological idealizations, proposes Nature as a vast artwork where light and shadow belong to one whole, and insists that each organism and process exists for its own sake, not for man’s use. Through examples—from storms, parasites, and potato blight to seeds, birds, and human history—he shows evolution proceeding by trial and adaptation, with moral and religious ideals arising within Nature, and concludes that clear-eyed acceptance of an impersonal universe offers the soundest basis for faith. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Science |
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| Uncontrolled term | Philosophy |
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| Uncontrolled term | Natural history |
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| Uncontrolled term | Natural history -- Philosophy |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/acceptingunivers00burr/page/n9/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/acceptingunivers00burr/page/n9/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78230">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78230</a> |
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