The unity nursing offers is known in human experience through personal, empirical, ethical, and aesthetic realms.
The Siamese twins were united by a living cord which joined their systems, and gave unity and sympathy to their sensations.
Because our substance changes in the minutest atoms; and each separate atom has a life of itself, the maintenance of which preserves the unity and permanence of the whole.
And that which floods the world with beauty, should no less be a bond of unity and love.
In which enumeration, what we have first to notice is, unity of purpose under variety of expedients.
For throughout that form is what is infinite and eternal; the infinite is in its unity and the eternal in its perpetuity; were they removed the form would instantly collapse.
The unity can be accomplished only in an idea of the total, and the total realized only in thought for each single part.
If the individual had a grain of will and intelligence of his very own, that unity could not exist, but would be torn apart.
But there was little direct communication and less unity of purpose between the older sections of the United States and far away California.
An unfavorable environment has, then, operated externally to develop coherence and unity {132} in life.
The ethical ground of moral idealism is the virtual unity of life, the working therein of one eventual purpose sustained by the good-will of all moral beings.
This I take to be the meaning of Aristotle's comment on the Republic: The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts.
I mean the apprehension of an idea when conveyed by some sensuous medium; the finding or recovery of some unity of thought in a perceptual context.
Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only.
But the identification of morality with the organization of life, serves also to demonstrate life in its unity and larger auspices.
Since religion emphasizes the unity of life and supplies it with meaning and dignity, it is the function of religion to kindle moral enthusiasm in society at large.
The cosmological correction of this type of religion is due to the same enlightenment that discredits superstition, a knowledge, namely, of the systematic unity of the cosmos.
On the contrary, the object of art is not beautiful {187} until it flashes the idea upon us, communicating an ideal unity that is not intellectually articulate at all.
Conceptions of nature, on the other hand, define the degree to which the environment is morally determined, and the unity or plurality of its causes.
The true value of a purpose lies in its function of organization; and is, therefore, inseparable from the interests to which it gives unity and fulfilment.
The work will also be interesting as an able defense of the unity of Thiers' political life, a position rarely assumed by even the most ardent friends of the great statesman.
Then Unity said, 'Will you go into the parlour, gentlemen?
When she passed a field behind the vicarage she heard the voices of Unityand William Worm.
Before he had receded two yards from the doorstep, Unity and Ann the housemaid came home from their visit to the village.
Only one earring, miss, as I'm alive,' saidUnity on their entering the hall.
Stephen and himself were then left in possession, and the work went on till early in the afternoon, when dinner was announced by Unity of the vicarage kitchen running up the hill without a bonnet.
The perplexed Unity looked at him with her mouth rather than with her eyes.
And then 'twas by the gate into Eighteen Acres,' Unity chimed in.
On going out of the door she metUnity at the top of the stair.
Unity was uttering a sentence that concluded with 'when Miss Elfride comes.
The spirit that animates them is the unity of the Fatherland.
The unity of Germany as one nation has never stood a better chance of being realized than now, when the very men who were students and flocked as volunteers when the iron hand of Napoleon I.
Side by side with the increasing tendency to unity in all national literature is working the force of races confounded under one political banner, to assert their existence as such.
Howel died in 950, and such unity as he had preserved at once disappeared in a war between his sons and those of Idwal Voel.
This is only one of innumerable examples of the strange unity that seems to underlie old popular customs and superstitions all the world over.
One outward sign of its essential unity consists in the old family burying-ground, in which all the Chiangs in all these villages have equal rights of sepulture.
This can, therefore, also be regarded as a unity of time in the higher sense of the term; the unities of place and action are, however, likewise most carefully regarded in the usual acceptation of the word.
On the other hand, you will not blame me," replied Ottilie, "if I do not insist with my girls on such unity of costume.
Rome is a place where all antiquity is concentrated into a unity for our inspection.
Above all the great church with massive dome and towers rises high above all the rest, and gives the whole a sense of unity and completeness which the smaller church of Mafra, though in a far more prominent place, entirely fails to do.
So all transcendental ideas may be arranged in three classes; the first containing the unity of the thinking subject; the second, the unity of the conditions of phenomena observed; the third, the unity of the objective conditions of thought.
In the use of pure reason its concepts, or transcendental ideas, aim atunity of all conditions of thought.
Coming now to the consideration of society as constructed out of the family units, we see unity of aim associated with diversity of functions.
Existence and unity are two other ideas that are suggested to the understanding by every object without and every idea within.
The individual is, therefore, in unconscious unity with the idea--the social weal.
The old age of nature is weakness; but this of spirit is its perfect maturity and strength, in which it returns to unity with itself, but in its fully developed character as spirit.
All histories of creation agree in establishing one point, the unity of man, by which I mean that men are all of one degree, and that all men are born equal, and with equal natural rights.
To the Greek world and its merely ideal unity the time preceding Charles V.
Charlemagne's time may be compared with the Persian Empire; it is the period of substantive unity, this unity having its foundation in the inner man, the heart, and both in the spiritual and the secular still abiding in its simplicity.
Helvetic unitywas crushed under the slow step of mules loaded with gold.
The object of the Reformation in Switzerland--for there too it had a political aspect--was to re-establish the unity and ancient virtues of the cantons.
Distinguishing between fundamental and secondary points, he thought he might sacrifice the latter to unity and peace.
I will not cease," said he, "to labour to restore the ancient unityof the Church of Christ.
Fourthly, these hypotheses are partial, inasmuch as they fail to account for the vastly varied and correlated interdependencies of natural things and forces, and for the unity of plan which pervades the whole.
Men could not do without the knowledge of the unity of nature and of the unity of God, until these great truths could be worked out by scientific induction.
The reader of the Pentateuch must carry this idea with him, if he would have any clear conception of the unity and symmetry of these remarkable books.
Carpenter and others have done, in opposition to Darwin, that on the one hand an impassable barrier separates man from the lower animals, and that on the other there is an essential unity among the races of men.
While, however, all the more eminent philologists adhere to the original unity of language, they are by no means agreed as to the antiquity of man; and some, as for instance Latham and Dr.
Yet the lines, though few, are so boldly drawn, and with so much apparent unity and symmetry, that we almost involuntarily admit that they are accurate and complete.
Whether this results merely from the psychical unity of the human race, or from the historical derivation of languages from one root, is not so material as the fact of unity; but that the latter is implied it would not be difficult to show.
He must recognize in it a unity of plan; and even those things which appear aberrant, irregular, or noxious must have their place in this plan.
All the more important is it that the librarian should be so well equipped with a definite aim, and with knowledge and skill competent to urge that aim consistently, as to preserve some unity of plan.
The selection of books made by committees introduces often an element of chance, not quite favorable to the unity of plan in developing the resources of the library.
It must have unity enough for that; it must be much more than a mere leisurely, unauthoritative conference of representatives.
I will do no more than I must to injure Germany further, and I will do all that I can to restore the unity of mankind.
To the old-time patriot there was nothing incongruous in the spectacle of the symbol of the national unity floating over cities reeking with foulest oppressions, full of prostitution, beggary, and dens of nameless misery.
The aim of Socrates, and of the Dialogue, is to show the unity of virtue.
Here as elsewhere is the usual contrast between the Sophists representing average public opinion and Socrates seeking for increased clearness and unity of ideas.
He who first conceived the Kosmos under logical unity as an orderly whole, had it in singular power; so too had he who looking into the mind became aware of its purposive laws which are the everlasting warrants of duty.
The objection may be urged at starting that there is no such unityof form in myths as the philosophy of mythology assumes; that if it appears, it is always explainable historically.
A second assumption must be that there is a unity of kind and purpose in all religions.
It must assume that there are some common truths, true infinitely, and therefore, that in all intelligence there is an essential unity of kind.
But among the Egyptians, Greeks and Aztecs, as well as in the words of Zarathustra and in the theology of Christianity, we frequently meet with the distinct recognition of the fundamental unity of all power.
The intolerance of almost all religions which have maintained the unity of God, is as remarkable as the contrary principle in polytheism.
It is assumed (1) that religions are products of thought, (2) that they have a unity of kind and purpose.
Even this is severed from its received doctrinal sense by the recognition of the speculative as above the numerical unity of that intelligence, and the limitation of personality which spiritual thought demands.
The logical, not the mathematical, unity of the divine is the perfection of theological reasoning.
The substitution of the conception of mathematical for logical unity in this connection has left curious traces in both philosophy and religion.
Not without regard to the import of the word as conveying unity or plurality of idea'--tell me again what that means, Ben.
How important singleness and unity are in political action no one, I imagine, can doubt.
One means of unity the Constitution does give: the President can veto laws he does not like.
That congregation is collected by a unity of sentiment in doctrine A, and the preacher is to preach doctrine A; if he does not, he is dismissed.
The law made the constituencies by geographical divisions; and they are not bound together by close unity of belief.
A certain unity is doubtless preserved by the duty which the executive is supposed to undertake, and does undertake, of keeping a house; a constant element is so provided about which all sorts of variables accumulate and pass away.
Everybody knows to what sort of influences several Italian changes of Government since the unity of Italy have been attributed.
My creed has but one word, and that word but one letter, that letter represents Unity, and Unity is Strength.
The passage from the idea of multiplicity to that of unity is itself an inseparable part of the total process.
Our final destructive aim has been achieved if we have emphasized the danger of correlating data drawn from several distinct sciences, whose only bond of unity is that they are all concerned with the same object--man.
