These three compounds—water, carbonic acid, and ammonia—in like manner, when combined form protoplasm. (Text.)
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Unity of Christendom—See Church Union.
Unity of Knowledge—See Knowledge,
Unity of.
UNITY OF LIFE
I was greatly charmed last summer by a
sight in the mountains of four stately chestnuts
growing from one root. I loved to sit
in the shadow first of one and then of
another, and to watch them swaying in the
wind and kissing each other through the interlacing
branches. So I have thought it is
with the drama, the finer arts, and music,
and with religious aspirations—each separate
in some sense from the other, and yet, down
in the deepest, one, blossoming alike and
bearing fruit, shooting up into the light together,
and glorifying the land where they
grow.—Robert Collyer.
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UNITY OF MATTER
Theism is gradually being reenforced by the discovery that apparently diverse phenomena are really one.
The division of bodies into gaseous, liquid,
and solid, and the distinction established for
the same substance between the three states,
retain a great importance for the applications
and usages of daily life, but have long since
lost their absolute value from the scientific
point of view.
As far as concerns the liquid and gaseous states particularly, the already antiquated researches of Andrews confirmed the ideas of Cagniard de la Tour and established the continuity of the two states.—Lucien Poincare, "The New Physics and Its Evolution."
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UNITY OF MIND
Spirit and foot rule have nothing to do
with each other. The same light comes out
of a dew-drop that comes out of the sun.
The smallest bird that trills its infinitesimal
melody utters occasional notes that would
blend with the voluminous progressions of
the grandest oratorio, or that would even
chime in with the anthem of the heavenly
host praising God and singing, "Glory to
God in the highest." And as the little note
of the bird fits the splendid symphony of the
angel-choir, so thought is still thought everywhere,
mind is mind in both worlds, the sea-shell
yet hums the murmur of the sea whence
it sprang, the younger star still moves in the
orbit it learned while one with the parent
star from which it was born, God and man
think in the same vernacular, the Father and
His children understand each other, the hills
and the mountains are divine thoughts done
in stone, and in the heavens the interpreting
mind of man calmly fronts and steadily
reads the meaning of God, and in the scintillant
paragraphs of the star-dotted sky, with
a divine genius, spells out thought that lay
eternal in the great Mind before ever He
said, "Let there be light."—Charles H.
Winthrop Packard, "Wild Pastures.'
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Unity of the Soul—See Soul a Unity.
UNITY, STRENGTH IN
These (cedar) roots so twine and intertwine
that the original sap, drawn from the
tender tips, must have nourished any one
of several trees indifferently, for heart-wood
joins heart-wood in scores of places
near the stump and far from it, showing that
each tree stood not only on its own roots,
but on those of its neighbors all about it; not
only was it nourished by its own rootlets, but
by those of trees near by. No gale could
uproot these swamp cedars. United they
stood and divided they might not fall.—Parkhurst.
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UNIVERSAL FACTS
The religion of science will demand that a
working faith shall have the universal note,
rather than that which is local, temperamental
or transient. All nature's truths are
universal truths. There are seven colors in
the sunbeam—here, in Mars—in all worlds.
The whole is equal to the sum of the parts,
for Newton and Euclid and Moses. The
laws of light and heat are the same in all
zones. Psychology that can be taught in
Yale or Harvard can be taught in Peking
and Calcutta. A physiology with the story
of the circulation of the blood in a white
man can be studied in a college for brown
men, and red men, and yellow men. The
multiplication table is not American—it is for
all men. The Ten Commandments are not
Hebrew—they are for men who live and
work and die, without regard to color, education
or race. The master, therefore, whose
music is to be a world music, must teach
that which is universal, simple and democratic.—N.
D. Hillis.
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Unkindness—See Love's Carefulness.
