Word: materialist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book a balmy neo-Biblical atmosphere, like that of George Moore's The Brook Kerith. Like that book, The Master of the House treats of the Christ story; but Authoress Hall, longtime a Council member of the Society for Psychical Research, has ideas about Christ that would wilt Materialist Moore. She leaves the historic Christ alone, merely shows, how, in one of his characters, a boy chances to reincarnate the psychic Christ. In the little Provengal town of Saint Loup, steeped in sunshine and the Catholic faith, lives Jousé Bénédit, a woodworker...
...moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist will tell me that . . . he sees me standing here, a three-dimensional being, with length, breadth and thickness, and that, in this sense, I have obviously three dimensions. Alas! I have sought to point out to him that the impression which he gets of me is obtained through a two-dimensional...
...dripping cellars of the building is not a simple man. He knows that Guy Fawkes and all his men have gone and that if Parliament is to be destroyed it will be by their own hand. But this is not as absurd as it all sounds to the crass materialist. It is what makes the English a great nation, a great band of comfortable, content, utterly confident Soames Forsytes. Take away their traditions and the pomp and circumstance of all England would be dragged in the dust...