Materiality-Immateriality

High thinking is inconsistent with complicated material life based on high speed imposed on us by Mammon worship. (Gandhi)

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race the Yankees; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world. (Morison)

What is at the heart of all our national problems ? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions. (Woodrow Wilson)