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With the amused impatience of a godless materialist. Soviet Scientist Oparin waves away the various vitalistic theories which hold that life appeared because of some transcendent animating principle which pervades the universe-or that life has always existed. He also refuses to believe that life was carried to earth in meteorites, since existing meteorites show no sign of containing viable organisms. Dr. Oparin also rejects the theory of free spores or other life-bearing particles driven to earth through interstellar space by impacts from radiation. He holds that ultraviolet or cosmic radiation would kill any such life particles beyond...
...circulation of the Catholic Worker has mounted to 125,000. Last week the paper called for volunteers to distribute copies in Union Square May i, under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin, "to bring to those taking part in these demonstrations some measure of light to offset their materialist idealism." The editors confessed they had only 92? in the bank, issued one of their periodic appeals for funds. Subscribing themselves "Lovingly and confidently yours in Christ the Worker," they wrote: "We have reached rock bottom, we have piled up bills these many weeks. So we beg your help. Please send...
...defended his conversion to Catholicism (Heretics, Orthodoxy), his novels (The Man Who Was Thursday), his biography of Charles Dickens, his "Father Brown" detective fiction, his sparkling editorship of G. K.'s Weekly. So close was he to his good friend Hilaire Belloc that their violently medieval, anticapitalist, anti-materialist philosophy earned the tag "Chesterbelloc...
Russian communism is based on the Marxist materialist concept of history, which considers social changes as a result of changes in the made of production, the speaker went on to explain. He further pointed out that the development of the communist state involves three stages: the overthrow of the bourgeoisie and private property, the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the synthetic transformation into a classless state...
Perhaps one of the most maligned branches of the World of Art is that of the dealer. The dealer has always been considered a rather crass materialist completely lacking in ideals or principles. This is more of a prejudice than a reality. Many of the dealers have combined most remarkably the pleasures of private collecting with the business of selling. The exhibitions organized under their auspices have often supplanted the inadequacies of the local museums and they also have been most useful in supporting, perhaps more in good times than at present, the contemporary artists worthy of patronage. One must...