Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A title adopted by Francis F. Barham for his religious system, which honors ‘divinity’ as the all-supreme good, and describes religion as the life of God in the soul of man, a divinity of essential being rather than formal doctrine.
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Examples
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“Victorian spiritualism” struck me as somewhat unlikely concept, given the Victorians passion for science, classif-ication, progress and rationalism.
Victorian Spiritualism: Arthur & George Hels 2009
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“Victorian spiritualism” struck me as somewhat unlikely concept, given the Victorians passion for science, classif-ication, progress and rationalism.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hels 2009
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Landscape painting was deeply linked to cultural nationalism in Australia then, and the work of those artists who engaged with these broader cultural ideas was increasingly seen as the National School of Art.
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Landscape painting was deeply linked to cultural nationalism in Australia then, and the work of those artists who engaged with these broader cultural ideas was increasingly seen as the National School of Art.
Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009
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"We must fight against 'clique-alism' and factionalism that can divide our movement," Zuma told a Congress of SA Trade Unions
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"We must fight against 'clique-alism' and factionalism that can divide our movement," Zuma emphasised.
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He saw nothing but stark function-alism and metal painted black or grey.
Starfishers Cook, Glen 1982
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Having successfully divorced Descartes 'physics from his metaphysics, this “Cartesian materi - alism” eventually merged with “French natural sci - ence.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GEORGE LICHTHEIM 1968
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It is fair to say that Feuerbach's critique of religion was of greater importance for Engels than for Marx, who took his materi - alism straight from the British and French philosophers of the eighteenth century.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GEORGE LICHTHEIM 1968
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Plekhanov, and following him Lenin, eliminated from the concept of “dialectical materi - alism” the ontological notion of “matter” as an absolute substance or constituent element of the universe.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas GEORGE LICHTHEIM 1968
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