Definition of someone who is materialistic

All these materialistic tendencies seem to have one explanation. But in spite of this its materialistic affinities are unmistakable. It was probably also during this period that the female element was first definitely admitted to a prominent place amongst the divine objects of sectarian worship, in the shape of the wives of the principal gods viewed as their sakti, or female energy, theoretically identified with the Maya, or cosmic Illusion, of the idealistic Vedanta, and the Prakriti, or plastic matter, of the materialistic Sankhya philosophy, as the primary source of mundane things.

The theosophical conception of brotherhood is thus rather transcendental than materialistic , and is not therefore to be regarded as the exact equivalent of the socialistic doctrine of the solidarity of the human race. But it is quite possible that his scientific studies had bred in him, as in many others at that time, a materialistic , or at least a naturalistic, turn of mind; indeed, we should expect as much in a man of Van den Ende's somewhat rebellious temperament.

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