materialistic
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Materialistic natural science had eclipsed the “spiritual sciences,” giving rise to the “arrogant delusion“ that humankind can achieve the “mastery of nature.”
From Scientific American • Feb. 13, 2015
Their country, wrote the photographer Paul Strand in 1922, was the "supreme altar of the new God," a trinity formed by "God the Machine, Materialistic Empiricism the Son, and Science the Holy Ghost."
From Time Magazine Archive
Materialistic Greeks believed that the laws of nature were the final reality to which man must adjust himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Materialistic despotisms, with their iron discipline, their mechanistic performance, their hard and shiny exterior, always seem formidable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Materialistic science was in the very heyday of its parvenu and tawdry intolerance, and historical knowledge in the splendid dawn of that new world of knowledge, of which Ranke was the Columbus.
From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron
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