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If a system of external and quasi-material rewards and punishments is indispensable in the education of the adult, still less can it be dispensed with in the education of the child.

From What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular by Holmes, Edmond

The roots of this conception belong to pre-exilian times, in which the “word” of divine denunciation was regarded as a quasi-material thing.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

In order to make this evident, we must note that in these virtues there is a formal element, and a quasi-material element.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint