What bearing does this have on the materialistic conception of history?
A system of economics is about the most materialistic thing in the world, yet it is the only key which will open the door to the temple of human history.
Marxian socialism explains the history of mankind on the naturalistic theory that it has been determined during every period by the existing system for supplying the materialistic necessities of life.
This is the discovery of Karl Marx which is known as the scientific or materialistic interpretation of history.
Many of the representations of the Jewish-Christian Bible are materialistic in a high, if not gross, degree.
These Darwinian and Marxian explanations constitute what is known as the materialistic explanation of history.
He finds the Germans too machine made, too materialistic to suit a Turk.
In fact, they have for centuries looked down upon commerce and finance and have purposely avoided competing in these activities with the less spiritual but far more materialistic non-Turkish elements of the Near East.
The Christian world, more materialistic than the others, obtained the upper hand and exerted its supremacy over the globe.
But, secondly, on the other hand, answer must be made, that under no theory of atheistic and merely materialistic and naturalistic evolution can the objective existence of moral law be logically or rationally maintained.
In some speculation it rests simply on certain ontological assumptions, sometimes pantheistic as in Spinozism, sometimes materialistic as in non-theistic evolutionism.
Materialistic evolution, which holds matter as being the energy and cause of all things, leaves no place for free-will, because in truth it leaves no place for mind.
Except in the materialistic and atheistic form of the hypothesis the theory distinctly presents evolution not as the cause, but only as the mode of the creation of man with all his now given endowments.
And if the stage goes on in this materialistic way, how long will it be before it ceases to amuse intelligent, not to say intellectual people?
The materialistic drift of this age--that is, its devotion to material development--is frequently deplored.
If our philosophy is material, resulting in selfish ethics, all our energies will have a materialistic tendency.
She recalled with a smile his contempt of the Austins and the Eliots, those most materialistic writers, he would say, whose interest in humanity and whose knowledge of it is limited to social habits and customs.
I am strongly inclined to regard it as a true myth, which, in materialistic language, sets forth the close of the day and the extinction of the light.
These are grossly materialistic expressions, but they are perfectly clear to the student of mythology.
Long before the school of materialistic monism arose, the ground was removed so that there could be no foundation.
He was a Spencerian like you till Kreis turned him tomaterialistic monism.
And yet they are equally far from the materialistic superstitions of that age and place; they are not amenable to fumigations or exorcisms, and they do not upset the furniture in rushing out.
And the more men give ear to materialism and to materialistic evolution without an evolving mind, so much the more does the problem press upon them, Whence hath this man this wisdom?
Of the origin of that important school we know nothing, but it differs from Jainism chiefly in the greater elaboration of its psychological and evolutionary theories and in the elimination of some materialistic ideas.
Hindu speculation has never passed through the materialistic phase, and the doctrine that the soul is annihilated at death is extremely rare in India.
But how seriously such tests of the weight of the soul have been received, may be gathered from the cases now and then forthcoming of this materialistic notion of its nature.
It is a reaction not against evolution, but only against its materialistic implication.
If so, then modern materialistic science has "jumped the claim.
The theory seems to many the most materialistic of all scientific doctrine only because it is the last which is claimed by materialism, and the absurdity of the claim is not yet made clear to many.
But by a revulsion from the materialisticextreme some have gone to the opposite extreme.
The fact that these materialistic conclusions are reached by some of the foremost scientists of the present day adds nothing to their probability.
I am anxious to show the absurdity of thismaterialistic conclusion, but I shall try to do so, not by any labored argument, but by a few simple illustrations.
Stoicism, with its materialistic idealism, had taught that all true laws are natural, while all laws of nature are diffusions and potencies of reason.
More than once I had noticed a look of pain in her face when I startled her with some of my materialistic views, and at last we tacitly avoided the subject altogether.
The materialistic studies were not in earnest; they were only a shield held up against the coming passion.
As the intellectual life predominates in him, and as he has a strong repugnance to materialistic madness, his nature must be stirred in its profoundest depths.
You gave Richard those materialisticbooks which I threw out of the window.
Our materialistic age has produced a type of spectator or "connoisseur," who is not content to put himself opposite a picture and let it say its own message.
This doubt, and the still harsh tyranny of the materialistic philosophy, divide our soul sharply from that of the Primitives.
On the other hand, the number is increasing of those men who put no trust in the methods of materialistic science when it deals with those questions which have to do with "non-matter," or matter which is not accessible to our minds.
Draper is devoted to a materialistic philosophy, and his moving purpose is to propagate this.
He is, moreover, too heady and too well cased in hismaterialistic strait-waistcoat.
The materialistic savans may cry Pagani at us, if they will; but we shall surely continue to kneel at the old altars, unless something other than the said "Situations" can be offered us in exchange.
Such an idea is only incomprehensible to those who smuggle materialistic preconceptions into their scientific theories.
Formerly, when we held a more materialistic view of psychiatry we were inclined to believe that all delusions, hallucinations, stereotypic acts, etc.
Goethe has left on record the impression made upon him by the materialistic view of life.
The main rock of offence in American society is, perhaps, its tendency to attach undue importance to materialistic effects.
This materialistic tendency, however, which its defenders call a higher standard of comfort, is not confined to the circles of the millionaires; it crops out more or less at all the different levels.
Now, it is the very enjoyment of this element that throws many men upon the materialistic or agnostic hypothesis, as a polemic reaction against the contrary extreme.
For such reasons the materialistic twentieth century acclaimed loudly the fame of this unknown man--mysterious in his humanity though great as a navigator.
For it vividly illustrates an eagerness for adventurous daring for honor's sake that seems to be growing rarer and rarer under the influences of a luxurious and materialistic century.
