Looked at from the purely materialistic side, doubtless, the lives of men are mere seaweed thrown up by the mighty ocean of Creation on the shores of Time.

" These are grossly materialistic expressions, but they are perfectly clear to the student of mythology.

Those tendencies of the age, which seem to others so dangerously materialistic, are the very causes of his zest in life.

And, most undoubtedly, the terms of the propositions are distinctly materialistic.

He was prepared to admit that America groped in spiritual darkness which the New Dawn would flush with its pure white light; he could not have contended with any authority that it was not a land of dollar hunters, basely materialistic, without ideals, artistically impoverished, and devoid of national self-consciousness, whatever that meant.

In estimating, therefore, the ground of Scott's pre-eminence in romance we must absolutely rid ourselves of the notion that romance or adventure are merely materialistic things involved in the tangle of a plot or the multiplicity of drawn swords.

But he does not, like Rubens, strike us as gross, sensual, fleshly; he remains proud, powerful, and frigidly materialistic.

That must be because it is wrong in spiritual conceptionbrutally materialistic, where it ought to have been noble or graceful.