Word: materialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...
...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...
...Marx's day, Europe was divided between these three attitudes towards The Machine. The old aristocracy tended to ignore The Machine, or to agree with Ned Ludd. The new aristocracy of trade committed itself to a philosophy of materialist progress. Some of the workers believed the promise; some believed Ned Ludd...
Yearnings of a Creator. Despite the fear of the warders (and in Marxist countries, because of this fear), Marxism persists. It offers far more than a critique of capitalism; in addition, its converts get the only fully developed materialist religion, complete with creed, church, directions for salvation, answers to every question, saints, doctors and devils...
...spiritual hankering which pervaded The Bulwark (TIME, March 25, 1946). After Cowperwood's death his mistress travels to India, seeks a religious meaning in life by studying Yoga. But she cannot reconcile spiritual claims with the poverty she sees around her, and is condemned to the old Dreiserian materialist world. In notes for a final chapter, which he did not live to write, Dreiser indicates that the mistress, with the money left her by Cowperwood, realizes his dream of subsidizing a hospital. Seldom has Dreiser allowed himself such a positive affirmation...