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  • How brazenly bodacious you blast, Boortz, in blasphemously bemocking Christian values while pretentiously peddling Mammonism.

    Neal Boortz wins Mammon's Distinguished Service Award 2006

  • This vision of Victorian culture is very much in a post-Carlylean "Gospel of Mammonism" mode, in which characters worship at the shrine of the holy guinea.

    The Little Professor: 2004

  • This vision of Victorian culture is very much in a post-Carlylean "Gospel of Mammonism" mode, in which characters worship at the shrine of the holy guinea.

    The Fiend in Human 2004

  • Harris did not know that his gods had fallen, that his ideals had been swept away; even as he sat at supper this summer evening, with his daughter's arms about his neck, he felt that he was still bravely, persistently, pressing on toward the goal, all unaware that years ago he had left that goal like a lighthouse on a rocky shore, and was now sweeping along with the turbulent tide of Mammonism.

    The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919

  • What if to the Mammonism of America be added the rising Mammonism of the re-born South, and the Mammonism of this South be reinforced by the budding Mammonism of its half-wakened black millions?

    The Souls of Black Folk 1915

  • Thou hast gambled with the very Bodies and Souls of men in thy Mad Mammonism.

    British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals J. Ellis Barker 1909

  • What if to the Mammonism of America be added the rising Mammonism of the re-born South, and the Mammonism of this South be reinforced by the budding Mammonism of its half-wakened black millions?

    The Souls of Black Folk 1903

  • What if to the Mammonism of America be added the rising Mammonism of the re-born South, and the Mammonism of this South be reinforced by the budding Mammonism of its half-awakened black millions?

    V. Of the Wings of Atalanta. William Edward Burghardt 1903

  • Materialism and Mammonism work against spiritual religion, and the social customs which wealth brings are adverse to a spiritual life.

    Recollections of a Long Life Cuyler, Theodore L 1902

  • Our national peril is Mammonism, and the sordid pursuit of gold.

    The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Newell Dwight Hillis 1893

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