To unify their task,
excluding lifeSri Aurobindo
Letters on Poetry and Art
SABCL - Volume 27
Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 1. On His Poetry and Poetic Method
On Savitri
Comments on Specific Lines and Passages of the Poem [50]
To unify their task,
excluding life
Which cannot bear the nakedness of the Vast, [p. 273]
I suppose the intransitive use of “unify” is not illegitimate, though the Oxford dictionary gives only the transitive.
Quite possible to use a transitive verb in this way with an unexpressed object, things in general being understood.
31 March 1948