During commemoration ceremonies for the Pushkin Monument in Moscow, novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky charged that poet and playwright Alexander Pushkin had given a prophetic call to Russia for "universal unity" with the West.
At the end of every day, many performed a "symbol of Universal Unity", in which they stood in a circle and joined hands and vowed for "truth to the cause of God and Humanity".
The texts of the 1830s located the logical structure which, for Bauer, defined the religious consciousness: the immediate identity between particularity, whether of a subject or a community, and the abstract universal, a unity achieved without self-transformation.
What Beethoven suggests, when read and heard in this light, is that joy is truly a universal agent of unity.
A compelling urge to merge with the infinite, ritual reminds us of a larger, archetypal reality and invokes in us a visceral understanding of such universal paradigms as unity, continuity, connectivity, reverence and awe.
The universal is one thing (res una) not in the sense of being an individual thing but in the sense of being a unity of agreement or likeness of individual things outside the mind (QLIIS 17, 72).
Hitherto man had commonly stressed the general and the universal and had regarded unity as the desirable goal.
Temporal and eternal power can be unified under one catholic theological and political authority with the avowed aim of assuring universal happiness, harmony and unity.
In his quest for time lost, he invented nothing but altered everything, selecting, fusing, and transmuting the facts so that their underlying unity and universal significance would be revealed.
Intra-specific diversity exists; genetic diversity is responsible for individual diversity, the genetic code is universal and explains the "unity and diversity" of living beings.
In his correspondence, though not in this text itself, Bauer indicated that this restoration of the Christian principle was also its overthrow, as the unity of universal and particular could now be grasped in more tangible and earthly forms.
