ABSTRACT
The aim of unitary thought is not only to aid the discovery of new truth but also to reorganize existing knowledge so as to increase understanding. The unitary view of nature leads at once to a unitary conception of man. This chapter develops the unitary picture of man by considering first the most general characteristics of homo sapiens, as a species displaying normal organic integration. It deals with the characteristics of man in two parts: first, the normal or general integration, and second, the special tendency to disintegration or dissociation, which is furthest developed in Western man. A study of the basis and limits of harmony is followed by an analysis of the most common form of disharmony. Unitary thought uses the general postulate of integration to draw attention to the special factors which gave rise to the dissociation of European and Western man.
