APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
The horror of “.Materialism” which weighs upon the minds of so many excellent people appears to depend, in part, upon the purely accidental connection of some forms of materialistic philosophy with ethical and icligious tenets by which they are repelled ; and partly, on the survival of a very ancient superstition concerning Lhe 11..ture ol matter.
This superstition, for the tenaeioii ■; vitality of which the idealistic philosophers who are, more or less, disciples of Plato ami the theologians who have been influenced b.v them, are responsble, assumes that md.tcr is something, not merely inert and perishable, but essentially base and evil-nalured, if not actively antagonistic: to, at lead, a negative dead-we'gl|t noon. the good.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1932, Page 1
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116APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1932, Page 1
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