... to as "under the circumstances." Self-acceptance is part of the process of growing up, of becoming mature. Margaret Fuller, it was reported to Thomas Carlyle, said, "I accept the universe." To which Carlyle dryly replied, "Gad, she’d better." We can accept life - with resignation. Edward Arlington Robinson has a poem about Miniver Cheevy who lamented that he was born three centuries too late. He wanted to be a knight in shining armor and wasn’t. And he never really adjusted. He took the way out of ...
