In considering materialism and naturalism let us not lose sight of the fact that while materialism is simpliste, naturalism (in so much as it represents nature) is essentially comprehensive and necessarily synthetic; harmony of force and matter being an invariable requisite of life.

THE UNITARIAN MARTYRS The rise of any considerable body of opinion opposed to the cardinal dogma of orthodoxy was preceded in England by a very strongly marked effort to secure liberty of thought, and a corresponding plea for a broadly comprehensive religious fellowship.

Not many words, mon cher, but confoundedly comprehensive!

Although I make no claim to exhaustiveness of treatment in this work, I do claim to have attempted a treatment that is exceptionally comprehensive and thorough.

Monosyllables are always expressive, but seldom more comprehensive than in this instance.

And I now wish to askafter having, I hope, with some clearness and in a manner tolerably comprehensive, placed the case before honourable memberswhat is their opinion of the management of these affairs by Her Majesty's Government?

He had not the stirring strains or the careless rapture of other and earlier poets of the motherland,his characteristic is more contemplative and brooding,yet his range is unusually comprehensive and his power varied and sustained, as well as marked by the highest qualities of rhythmic beauty.

But men, in making their general ideas, seeking more the convenience of language, and quick dispatch by short and comprehensive signs, than the true and precise nature of things as they exist, have, in the framing their abstract ideas, chiefly pursued that end; which was to be furnished with store of general and variously comprehensive names.

You are constructing admirably comprehensive schemes and systems for His guidance, if your hints will but be taken.

It protects the sanctity of an oath before God, provides among many other things for written evidence in legal matters, and is wonderfully comprehensive and rich in rules for the conduct of commercial, civic, financial, social, economic, and domestic affairs.