Creating an organized whole that is integrated through its basic ideas or common features which are scattered throughout a diversity of forms. For example, interlinked analogous principles are accepted in widely different and seemingly heterogeneous fields, and in otherwise divisive ideologies and political systems, such as "all men are equal" or the set of maxims (variously expressed in each culture) meaning to "treat your neighbour as yourself" or "behave as you would want others to behave".
In art, a principle that aesthetic value or beauty depends on the fusion of various elements into an organic whole which produces a single impression.