His approach -- to find a "unity of experience" through temperature -- is both refreshing and rewarding.
The failure of positivist ideas to help define the identity of the populations of the various nations gave rise to a reaction, most evident in the Mexican Revolution, to turn back to the Amerindian past as a way to find a unity that would make nations of the diverse population.
The various bands of Marxist guerrillas, largely checked in the time of Ríos Montt and Mejía Víctores, found a new unity in the formation of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (Unidad Revolucionario Nacional Guatemalteco; URNG).
The separate city states of ancient Greece found a collective unity and sense of common nationhood at war with the Persian empire, and the classical heights of Greek culture were saturated with this sense of nationhood.
In these images of life and death, pain and sorrow, sunshine and shadow, he found a convincing unity between traditional religious imagery and the pantheistic vision underlying his earlier studies of the natural world.
"So I am calling on all of us of every community, every faith – in the coming weeks and months to find a single act of unity – one simple gesture, one act, one moment – that draws people together.
While that oratory has left Iran more isolated from the West, it has increasingly found a degree of unity and support in the region.
Many Turks have found a new sense of unity that in time could foster genuine, pluralistic democracy if only the sultan would listen.
Despite divisions - mainly caused by economic need - Europe adopted sanctions and found a public face of unity.
Under Hodgson, England have found a new sense of unity, purpose and spirit and it is helping to bridge the gap to those teams with greater technical ability.
