The forms, the phainomena, of Nature are innumerable, multifarious, interwoven, and infinitely perplexing, and you may spend a happy life in unravelling their relations and devising their evolutions; but until you have looked through them and seen the ideas that are behind them you are a mere materialist and a blind worker.

The coarse legend of "death is the sleep of eternity,"* is only a compendium of the fine-drawn theories of the more elaborate materialist, and the depositaries of the dead will not corrupt more by the exhibition of this desolating standard, than the libraries of the living by the volumes which hold out the same oblivion to vice, and discouragement to virtue.

A gross little materialist!

If the contention of the scientific materialist were correct, and the thing that makes man, and that Christians call the immortal soul, were but the result of physical processes of growth and differentiation, then slavery would be justifiable, and exploitation a reasonable and inevitable process.

The most pronounced materialist has a faith in some form of beautymatter itself is capable of ideal shapes in his conception.

A gross little materialist!

In regard to chemistry, no common knowledge was attributed to him after he had taken as a premise the statement of St. Thomas that water is a mixture and proved plainly that the Angelic Doctor had long forestalled Berzelius, Gay-Lussac, Bunsen, and other more or less presumptuous materialists.

My dear Cat, you are a profound materialist!

A sane, aggressive, self-centered, rational materialist of the American brand, it was not only his friends who thought him a fine fellow.

But Matthew, who was a sad materialist even in his sentimental moods, laughed at him, and winked.

A sane, aggressive, self-centered, rational materialist of the American brand, it was not only his friends who thought him a fine fellow.

A sane, aggressive, self-centered, rational materialist of the American brand, it was not only his friends who thought him a fine fellow.

Dr. Lyman was a nearly unbelieving materialist at this time, but had several times "wabbled," as Bart expressed it, from orthodoxy to infidelity, without touching the proscribed ground of Uncle Aleck.

Unless we are the baldest materialists, we will not reserve for the parchment body of some old book the respect called forth by its soul.

Of course he is also a dogmatic materialist, and by no means an "agnostic" in the wider sense of general scepticism.]

The error of the extreme idealist is in endeavouring to realize the absolute without the relative, and the error of the extreme materialist is in endeavouring to realize the relative without the absolute.

As a politician this gentleman may not unfairly be defined as an imaginative materialist and an Imperialist of the school of which Cecil Rhodes is the best-known colonial exponent.