materialism
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We would fain ask the reader to remark the striking difference which obtains between the Mosaic and the New Testament dispensations in all that regards the materialisms of their respective places of worship.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
Infra-theistic conceptions, materialisms and agnosticisms, are irrational because they are inadequate stimuli to man's practical nature.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
A sublime man, who alone in those dark days escaped from black materialisms and revolutionary deluges with God, Freedom, Immortality, still his.
From Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson by Hardwick, John Charlton
A sublime man; who, alone in those dark days, had saved his crown of spiritual manhood; escaping from the black materialisms, and revolutionary deluges, with "God, Freedom, Immortality" still his: a king of men.
From Life of John Sterling by Carlyle, Thomas
A sublime man; who alone in those dark days had saved his crown of spiritual manhood, escaping from the black materialisms and revolutionary deluges with 'God, Freedom, Immortality,' still his; a king of men.
From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)
Vocabulary lists containing materialism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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Chapter 28: The Cold War Era
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