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...person is a sheer materialist, the bodies are properly cared for until they go back, inevitably, to the soil...
Bertrand Russell is a rationalist, a materialist, a devotee of science (he is one of the greatest of living mathematicians). To him science is truth. Religion is a mote that does not trouble but tickles the mind's eye. Faith moves him to irony, not reverence. Some readers may feel that many of the philosophers whose systems he expounds disprove the connection between political and social conditions that he postulates. But few would deny that for laymen A History of Western Philosophy is a highly readable introduction to a difficult subject...
...Puritan-Protestant Idea. The fact that Beard was no crude materialist has been apparent for years to those who have read his occasional magazine articles. Beard's vision of America has always been rooted in a moral idea, the Puritan-Protestant idea of "take care of your family and lend a helping hand to those who deserve...
Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...
Tell such a man that you are not a Darwinian, and he will usually conclude that you must be a Fundamentalist. If you do not believe in the economic interpretation of history, you must be a "mystical Tory." If you are not a materialist, you must be an idealist. "Ours is a scientific world, a literate world, saturated with -I will not say, the precise ideas of the three materialists-but surely with their deeper spirit, their faith in matter, their love of system, their abstract scientism, and their one-sided interpretation of Nature." How directly their theoretical ideas have...