But this mutability attaches not to material nature alone, but to all creation; the highest archangel in the highest heaven, as well as every spirit embodied on earth, is a mutable creature.
It will be unaccompanied by any destruction, and even by any commotion in the realm of material nature.
But when such a conception is transferred to material nature it loses a considerable portion of its original significancy.
There can be no objection to the use of the expression, "the laws of mind," when care is taken to use language which clearly distinguishes between them and unintelligent and necessary sequences of material nature.
All that I am contending for is that a clear distinction must be preserved between the necessary action of the forces of material nature, and the voluntary action of man; and that terms must be used which accurately denote this distinction.
Secondly: that it contradicts the highest of all our certitudes, the direct testimony of consciousness, which affirms that we live under a law of freedom, wholly different from the necessary laws of material nature.
The second maxim is the counter-proposition: some products of material nature cannot be judged to be possible according to merely mechanical laws.
The uniformity of the constitution of material nature, or the principle that the same substances must always have the same essential properties, is undoubtedly a self-evident and necessary truth, an a priori, rational intuition.
Although Murillo admired this perfect representation of material nature, his own works are exceptions, in fact almost the only exceptions, to this peculiarity of the Spanish masters.
The Spanish artists usually endeavoured to produce an exact imitation of material nature; while the Italians aimed at, and attained higher results.
The object of the Lesser Mysteries was to signify occultly the condition of the impure soul invested with a terrene body and merged in a material nature.
That is to say, the soul having sunk into the profoundities of a material nature, unites with the dark tenement of the material body.
This signifies that the lapse of the soul into a material natureis contrary to the genuine wish and proper condition.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "material nature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
