Editorial July 17, 1965 ISSUE

"Released from materialism"

Helen Wood Bauman

Undestroyed materialism is the cause of every human woe. And here is one of Webster's definitions of "materialism": "a theory that physical matter is the only reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter."

One need only look at the devastating effects of the belief in matter's reality to realize where such a theory would lead mankind. Crime, poverty, immorality, disease, death—all limiting elements of human thought—are often the results of it. The world's struggle for freedom from limitations is a struggle against materialism, even though this is not widely recognized.

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