The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
With local change in material things, as also with quantitative change, growth and diminution of quantity (mass and volume), everyone is perfectly familiar.
The paths of material thingsand of states of consciousness are distinct, as is manifest from the fact that the same object may produce different impressions in different minds.
So with other delusions, which hold us in bondage to material things, and through which we look at all material things.
Hence in Holy Writ, spiritual truths are fittingly taught under the likeness of material things.
Both in the history of the race and in that of the individual, we find that the attention is seized first by material things, and that it is long before a clear conception of the mind and of its knowledge is arrived at.
We seem to ourselves to have always lived in a world of things,--things in time and space, material things.
A closer scrutiny reveals that the world of atoms and molecules into which the man of science resolves the system of material things is not, after all, so very different in kind from the world to which the plain man is accustomed.
For example, to the plain man the world of material things consists of things that can be seen and touched.
The alchemist not only attributed ethical qualities to material things, he also became the guardian and guide of the moral practices of these things.
But this view absolutely ignored the social consequences which result from an unequal distribution of material things in a world where everybody absolutely depends for life and all its uses on their share of those things.
Consider the world of existence—that is to say, the world of material things.
And for this reason, even though our daily loss from this source is greater than from our waste of material things, the one has stirred us deeply, while the other has moved us but little.
Hence, truth is a term of universal application, but imitation is limited to that narrow field of art which takes cognizance only of material things.
It is the hard, straightforward classification of material things, not the study of thought or passion; and therefore let me not be accused of the feelings which I choose to repress.
But in addition to this, we have to note that the truth in reference to material things is usually subject to demonstration.
I fear you'll hurt your pretty wings Against these hard, material things.
Even in outward, material things we sometimes see the working of this law.
For they all pretended to see only the earthly dimensions of material things.
But we make some apparently final to the reason, just as in regard to material things we call that an indivisible point beyond which our senses can no longer perceive any thing, though by its nature this also is infinitely divisible.
Hence it comes that almost all philosophers have confounded different ideas, and speak of material things in spiritual phrase, and of spiritual things in material phrase.
All those words, especially in the Old Testament, that express emotions or acts of the mind, originally applied to corporeal acts or material things.
The power of the sunshine is the root power of all force which works in material things.
Light seems to the unscientific eye, which knows nothing about undulations of a luminiferous ether, to be the least material of material things.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "material things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
