There is an important sense in which all forms of materialism are fatalistic in their relation to moral responsibility.
III A development that would require a treatise in itself I will but touch on, to suggest to all interested a matter of general and grave concern--the growing materialism of religious bodies.
Sometimes he found in religion or philosophy an antidote to the pettiness of daily life, and was roused into rebellion against the materialism of his equals, the greed and the injustice of his rulers.
But when account is taken of all the drab materialism in the rural districts there remains a leaven of unworldliness.
Materialism is prevalent everywhere, but people will begin to feel difficulties in following their materialism.
Souls shall be educated, vice be dispelled, the virtues of the world of humanity prevail, materialism pass away, religion be strengthened and prove to be the bond which shall cement together the hearts of men.
It is the cause of the victory of materialism and infidelity over religion; it is the denial of Divinity and the law of revelation; it refuses Prophethood and rejects the Kingdom of God.
In Europe I told the philosophers and scientists ofmaterialism that the criterion of the senses is not reliable.
Mankind is submerged in the sea ofmaterialism and occupied with the affairs of this world.
What base and loathsome materialism there was in all this!
The idealistic and imaginative tendencies of man were just as much realities, and no amount of materialism could obliterate them.
We are hardly aware of the extent to which this tendency to materialismbiases and influences us in regard to religious and secular education.
Materialism has spread all over the civilized world, influencing men in religion and in education.
One of the best is what you say near the end about science gradually conquering the materialism of popular religion.
This form of materialism I have termed egoism and bigotry, since the purpose may be either personal or social in scope.
But we meet here withmaterialism in its purest form.
Let me illustrate this full swing of the pendulum from formalism to materialism by briefly summarizing certain well-known types of religious philosophy.
Since materialism is in each case due to the lack of the next higher {80} principle of organization, there is no real difference between the materialism of one economy and the negative vice of the next.
Materialism is more heartily condemned, because he who is guilty of it is not alive to the general good.
The most characteristic note of this serious and loftyMaterialism had been struck by Professor W.
And I place this on record, because the progress of Materialism will never be checked by diatribes against unbelievers, as though they became unbelievers from desire for vice and for licence to do evil.
It has cost me pain enough and to spare to admit that the Materialism from which I hoped all has failed me, and by such admission to bring on myself the disapproval of some of my nearest friends.
So how could I hesitate--I whose heart had been fired by devotion to an ideal Humanity, inspired by that Materialism that is of love and not of hate?
Materialism linked with the scientific view of evolution, and with a knowledge of the physical law, by which evolution is accelerated or retarded.
In literature they preach the evangel of materialism under the flimsy guise of so-called popularized science, and even the school has been perverted into an institution whose sole object seems to be to supply labor for the white slave mart.
Nevertheless, we may still rejoice that at a time when materialism has corrupted so many hearts, these solemnities still attract crowds.
There is nothing in it positively affirmed which is necessarily materialistic, as far as we can see; rather, we should say that its doctrine stands on one side of both materialism and spiritualism, and can be reconciled with either.
Materialism is utterly incapable of elevating the heart, and destroys therefore a branch of civilization quite as essential as intellectual culture itself.
Liberalism, rationalism, and materialism are different names for the same system.
Fourierism and the abuse of industrial unions, while rejecting authority, have touched materialism on the one side and communism on the other, and are the atheistic and pantheistic forms of labor.
It is especially among the former that this scepticism seems to have gained ground, for materialism ranks lower in the scale of intelligence than the deification of the human mind.
How far the gloomy materialism and superficial rationalism of Lewes may have affected the opinions of Miss Evans we cannot tell.
That materialism and atheism which scientists announce as a result, is really the starting point of their speculations.
It is indeed worthy of remark that the idea of the empirical existence of God has been perfectly developed in modern times, in which empiricism and materialism in general have arrived at their full blow.
No scientific man, who has not deliberately shut himself in an hermetically sealed materialism would say to-day that "Miracles" do not happen.
Men only who have grown rusty in reposing on their past reputations and cannot see that materialism as a philosophy is dead.
But the socialism which had existed so far was just as incompatible with the materialistic conception of history as was the naturalistic French materialism with the dialectic and the modern discoveries in natural science.
In contradiction to the naively simple revolutionary pushing on one side of all earlier history, modern materialism sees in history the process of the development of society, to discover the laws of whose development is its task.
The old materialism was therefore negated by idealism.
The total perversion of modern German idealism of necessity drove men to materialism, but not, and this is well worth noting, to the mere metaphysical mechanical materialism of the eighteenth century.
Now the task is to continue in that spirit and thus continuously to remain "the Hope of the World"--not to end in materialism and as representing no more than brute force.
Added to this came the materialism which laid stress upon the values of what was materialistic and mechanical at the cost of the soul.
To the student of our times there is nothing more pathetic than to observe the struggles of those upon whom materialism casts its spell to escape from their bondage.
One named Voltaire, who scoffed at God, and enunciated the doctrine of materialismin France, is buried there.
They are primarily the material and elementary types of the spiritual trinity of revelation--types established by revelation itself, and the only resource of materialism to preserve the original doctrine.
If Materialism is confounded, science is rendered dumb.
There is a certain coarseness of materialism about Tyndall; there is a vehement and almost an arrogant aggressiveness in him which must interfere with the clearness of his views.
He has never sunk into materialismor frittered away his earnestness in mere skepticism.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "materialism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
