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... materialism . Hugh Elliot's Modern Science and Materialism is a competent and aggressive presentation of the case . Elliot has the virtue of caring whether his reader believes in materialism or does not . Santayana has remarked of ...
... materialism . Hugh Elliot's Modern Science and Materialism is a competent and aggressive presentation of the case . Elliot has the virtue of caring whether his reader believes in materialism or does not . Santayana has remarked of ...
Page 123
... materialism should provoke protest and criticism . Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , it is not too much to say , materialism was the " specter " which haunted Western metaphysics . Some re- sorted to the simple ...
... materialism should provoke protest and criticism . Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , it is not too much to say , materialism was the " specter " which haunted Western metaphysics . Some re- sorted to the simple ...
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... materialism as at present understood . The lower and not the higher forces are the eternal forces , or the last surviving forces within the only cycle of evolution which we can definitely see . The true objection to materialism is not ...
... materialism as at present understood . The lower and not the higher forces are the eternal forces , or the last surviving forces within the only cycle of evolution which we can definitely see . The true objection to materialism is not ...
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