Sentences with phrase «solely by materialism»

While maintaining that the Church has not contradicted its teaching on usury, I do not think we can say the banking system itself is intrinsically sinful or evil, although it may be misused by men driven solely by materialism and profit.

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In face of this strictly «pagan» materialism and naturalism it becomes a pressing duty to remind ourselves once again that, if the laws of biogenesis of their nature suppose and effectively bring about an economic improvement in human living - conditions, it is not any question of well - being, it is solely a thirst for greater being that by psychological necessity can save the thinking world from the taedium vitae.