"Unitary man escapes these confusions through his recognition that one factor is of supreme importance: the maturity proper to man can only come through the experience of adult unity. This experience may come in many ways, but it means that the individual has, for the moment, outgrown the sense of any division, either within himself of from others, through a mature relations to at least one other person. Tension is inherent in the process, but tension does not become frustrating conflict if the overriding unity is realized. (p. 255)"
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Lancelot Law Whyte
Lancelot Law Whyte (4 November 1896 β 14 September 1972) was a Scottish philosopher, theoretical physicist, historian of science and financier.
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