' ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE 



where, somehow, the course of nature is justified. I 

 shall not be imprisoned in that grave where you are 

 to bury my body. I shall be diffused in great Na- 

 ture, in the soil, in the air, in the sunshine, in the 

 hearts of those who love me, in all the living and 

 flowing currents of the world, though I may never 

 again in my entirety be embodied in a single human 

 being. My elements and my forces go back into the 

 original sources out of which they came, and these 

 sources are perennial in this vast, wonderful, divine 

 cosmos. 



