ABSTRACT
A unitary method of thought is indispensable to the interpretation of the history, of the West. The pervasive dualisms which distort the thought of Western man are an element in his general condition, which therefore must be diagnosed in a language which does not take these dualisms for granted. Unitary thought provides that minor but all-important re-orientation which eliminates the prejudice that has hitherto obscured the vision of the facts. A slight change of position, and the interrelations of everything are transformed so that a simple order is revealed. This chapter argues that re-orientation to the interpretation of certain aspects of the history of Europe and the West. It explains the traditional frame of thought. Unitary thought postulates a unity of the general form of process, but it emphasises the uncertainty of any particular development. It asserts: form develops, when circumstances permit.
