ABSTRACT
Those who believe they are molding the future need not always wait for the judgement of others, since they may be able to test their view in action. If a view of the future develops successful action, and is itself further developed in the course of that action, it becomes what the author calls a conviction. If any reader is tempted to accept the doctrine of unitary man without appropriate reserve, let him select any conflict in feeling, thought, or action and attempt to realize the unitary solution. Viewed historically, unitary man is the universal type which begins to appear about the middle of the twentieth century as the result of a reorganization of the tradition based on the unitary conviction. The unitary norm extends the principle of organic or animal harmony by applying it to a species with the degree of differentiation and intellectual development characteristic of the new unitary man.
