Full Idea
In Faraday lines of force picture the directional structure of powers,...so the fundamental entity is a single, unified field. ...A new criterion of the ultimate has stepped in: Unity. The universal field is still the final explanation, but not invariant.
Gist of Idea
Faraday's single field of variable forces introduces a criterion of Unity into what is ultimate
Source
report of Michael Faraday (Experimental Researches in Electricity [1859]) by Harré,R./Madden,E.H. - Causal Powers 9.II.B
Book Reference
Harré,R/Madden,E.H.: 'Causal Powers: A Theory of Natural Necessity' [Blackwell 1975], p.175
A Reaction
Almost Parmenides, except that the field is not invariant. But that was always the ancient objection to the One - that it offered no explanation of change.