Giving priority to financial unification, with a common currency, came much later, and it has, to some extent, started to derail the original aspiration of European unity.
The article criticized as atheistic those tendencies of contemporary Jewish theology, Buber's foremost among them, to conceive of the idea of God as an expression of the vital Jewish aspiration for unity.
War loomed, but for the moment the New York World's Fair inspired millions with its vision of utopian promise, symbolized most pointedly by the Trylon and Perisphere at its center: one a soaring emblem of rationalist aspiration, the other a white globe of unity and wholeness.
They tried to project an image of unity yesterday at the Manhattan news conference, which drew several other politicians with mayoral aspirations: City Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., Assemblyman Brian M. McLaughlin of Queens, Mr. Miller and Ms. Fields.
But the momentary message of unity, delivered to an audience of largely prosperous New Englanders, seemed just as important, in its aspiration and exclusion: the party of education would win, the ranks of graduates would swell, and the nostalgia that they felt, at a private college on a beautiful October afternoon, might one day be the whole country's.
"This is a sign of unity".
"Patronage is the price of unity".
Dr. E. H. Perkins, of Unity, Maine.
Dramatic principles of unity are widely violated.
And purity is the enemy of unity".
