monistic
Americanadjective
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Monistic experiences get most of the attention, because they are usually accompanied by bliss and spiritual exaltation rather than anxiety and alienation.
From Scientific American • Aug. 17, 2019
"Monistic materialism," according to Haeckel, finds its primeval parent in a moneron, a creature of one substance, and that a semi-albuminous fluid.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 by Walker, Aaron
As has been said, the Monistic philosophy claims to be above all things scientific, and upon this ground are we bidden to accept it.
From The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by Gerard, John S.J.
It is true that the opponents of evolution love to misrepresent the Monistic philosophy based on it as "Materialism," and confuse the philosophic tendency of this name with a wholly unconnected and despicable moral materialism.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
But the deeper religious sense, which underlies all symbolism, remains with him; and the Monistic Idea in Buddhism is being strengthened and expanded, rather than weakened, by the new education.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio
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