The temper of monists has been so vehement, as almost at times to be convulsive; and this way of holding a doctrine does not easily go with reasonable discussion and the drawing of distinctions.
Empiricists as a rule, are as stout monists of this abstract kind as rationalists are.
It is an odd fact that many monists consider a great victory scored for their side when pluralists say 'the universe is many.
Only thoroughgoing monists or pantheists believe in the absolute.
Not one step in this process is logical, yet it is the way in which monists and pluralists alike espouse and hold fast to their visions.
The fundamental difficulty I have found is the number of contradictions which idealistic monistsseem to disregard.
The monists themselves writhe like worms on the hook to escape pluralistic or at least dualistic language, but they cannot escape it.
Thus, he may distinguish between the two substances and their manifestations, as some monists distinguish between the one substance and its manifestations.
Whether we call ourselves monists or dualists, idealists or realists, Lockians or Kantians, must we not live and deal with the things about us in much the same way?
Various considerations have moved men to become monists in this sense of the word.
Some monists are in the habit of speaking of the one Being to which they refer phenomena of all sorts as the "Absolute.
Men will not live in the hopelessness which the monists would thrust upon them, they will not patiently wait while Pasteur and Koch and the other germ theorists labor to prolong the life of some other generation.
Just as the Catholics had to relinquish a number of churches to the Reformation in the sixteenth century, so a still larger number will pass over to "free societies" of monists in the coming years.
If Monists were to limit their aspirations to this, their teaching would at least be intelligible.
Haeckel is never weary of telling us that to monists organisms are mere machines.
Many monists in spite of assertions to the contrary believe in a supreme divine principle, which penetrates the whole world, living and operating in everything.
Are the eminent representatives of this science really the materialists and monists they would have to be, if all this were true?
For instance the monists have the chief voice in appointments to zooelogical chairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "monists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
