mud-philosophies

Updated: February 12, 2026

Materialism is to-day so deeply discredited that we find it difficult to realise that sixty years ago the problem wore a different look. Carlyle was never weary of pouring out the vials of his contempt on 'mud-philosophies' and exalting the spirit as against matter.

Edward Caldwell Moore - An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant