The Austins conceive of each collection as a harmonious set whose parts are meant to sit side by side.
Hopper and Fonda were joined on screen by a then-unknown Jack Nicholson as an alcoholic lawyer, but it was not a harmonious set.
The naturalism of Democritus, Hobbes and others derives everything from what can be cognized and is pluralistic in structure; idealism of freedom as found in Plato, Kant and others insists on the sovereignty of the will and is dualistic; objective idealism as found in Heraclitus, Leibniz and Hegel affirms reality as the embodiment of a harmonious set of values and is monistic.
"It was meant to be a little jewel box, a calm, harmonious setting, nuanced with period antiques," Ms. Abbott said.
Further out, we see a future in which not just isolated companies, but all of humanity operates seamlessly as a single harmonious symphony, setting shared goals and accomplishing dreams beyond what we can imagine today.
We are reminded also of Mondrian's search for a harmonious whole, each time he set up a new studio-home, an endeavour brilliantly illustrated and analysed in last year's exhibition Mondrian and his Studios, mounted by Tate Liverpool in collaboration with Michael White.
The transparency commission, he added, would be his government's way to "set its sights forward, to construct a harmonious government and also to make an accounting of the past".
In his speech at Yale University during his recent visit to the US, Hu Jintao set out - for the first time in such a forum - the Chinese view of a harmonious world based on the idea of Chinese civilisation.
The scene lovingly merges the surroundings (the trees and the birds) in a harmonious composition of human activity (and divine presence) in perfect tune with nature nature elevated in importance and set in the forefront.
