The ultimate objective of American policy is to help establish a world in which there is the largest possible measure of freedom and justice and peace and material prosperity ; ;

Just a few centuries ago the world of spirits was as populous and real as the world of material entities.

As someone in constant contact with ( this watered-down version of ) “ nature ”, the farmer was positioned to experience moments that transcend the mundane material world.

Animism encompasses the beliefs that there is no separation between the spiritual and physical ( or material ) world, and souls or spirits exist, not only in humans, but also in all other animals, plants, rocks, geographic features such as mountains or rivers, or other entities of the natural environment.

While his predecessors Thales and Anaximander proposed that the arche, the underlying material of the world, were water and the ambiguous substance apeiron, respectively, Anaximenes asserted that air was this primary substance of which all other things are made.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

In November 2008, the UK based think tank Demos published an influential pamphlet entitled ' It's a material world: caring for the public realm ', in which they argue for integrating the public directly into efforts to conserve material culture, particularly that which is in the public, their argument, as stated on page 16, demonstrates their belief that society can benefit from conservation as a paradigm as well as a profession:

According to Steiner, a real spiritual world exists, out of which the material one gradually condensed and evolved.

Yet this should not minimize our sacred endeavors in this world of ours, where, like faint glimmers of light in the dark, we have emerged for a moment from the nothingness of dark unconsciousness of material existence.

The museum's collection of Islamic art, including archaeological material, numbers about 40, 000 objects, one of the largest of its kind in the world.

The British Museum houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Ethnographic material from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, representing the cultures of indigenous peoples throughout the world.

O my Lord who possesses nails and teeth just like thunderbolts, kindly vanquish our demon-like desires for fruitive activity in this material world.

Please appear in our hearts and drive away our ignorance so that by Your mercy we may become fearless in the struggle for existence in this material world.

The view of the Church is that celibacy is a reflection of life in Heaven, a source of detachment from the material world which aids in one's relationship with God.

In Hinduism, particularly in an esoteric context, the four states-of-matter describe matter, and a fifth element describes that which was beyond the material world.

This dual personality of the unseen and the seen, the spiritual and material, the eternal Christ and the corporeal Jesus manifest in flesh, continued until the Master's ascension, when the human, material concept, or Jesus, disappeared, while the spiritual self, or Christ, continues to exist in the eternal order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ has always done, even before the human Jesus was incarnate to mortal eyes.

If Greek citizenship was an " emancipation from the world of things ", the Roman sense increasingly reflected the fact that citizens could act upon material things as well as other citizens, in the sense of buying or selling property, possessions, titles, goods.

Traditionally these have been interpreted as examples of government hostility toward commerce, but more recent studies, which use source material such as magistrate diaries and genealogical records, suggest that merchants in fact had a powerful impact on government policies and that the division between the world of the merchant and the world of the official was far more porous than traditionally believed.

In these stories the word " chaos " means " disorder ", and this formless expanse, which is also sometimes called a void or an abyss, contains the material with which the created world will be made.

It rejects the notion that Jesus or any other object or living being could be ' God ', that God could have a literal ' son ' in physical form or is divisible in any way, or that God could be made to be joined to the material world in such fashion.

Absent in the early Arthurian material, Camelot first appeared in 12th-century French romances and eventually came to be described as the fantastic capital of Arthur's realm and a symbol of the Arthurian world.

The process of using previously recorded material, modifying the material, and subsequently recording it to a new master mix, in effect transferring or " dubbing " the material, was utilized by Jamaican producers when making dubs.

Among these, he proposes that language be reinvested with value, and that the right to private property, which he dubs " the last metaphysical right ", be maintained, among other things because it provides a material basis for human sustenance and thus furnishes an individual ( as it did Henry David Thoreau ) with the means to be independent from a corrupt system.

Showcase In A Suitcase is a reggae album comprising showcase ( songs followed by dubs ) format material produced by Prince Far I, and performed by Prince Far I, Ashanti Roy, The Wailing Souls, and Naggo Morris.

This crater contains impact glass with no metallic inclusions and no meteoritic material has been recovered.

The crystal lattice of solid americium and its compounds contains intrinsic defects, which are induced by self-irradiation with alpha particles and accumulate with time ; this results in a drift of some material properties.

Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions.

The collection Fondements de la Géometrie Algébrique ( FGA ), which gathers together talks given in the Séminaire Bourbaki, also contains important material.

According to the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah theory, it contains material set aside from the rest of the book of Ezra, which was canonized first.

Edible animal material, including muscle, offal, milk, eggs and egg whites, contains substantial amounts of protein.

It clearly contains material written at different stages in Clausewitz's intellectual evolution, producing some significant contradictions between different sections, and the sequence and precise character of that evolution is a source of much debate.

It contains most of the cell's genetic material, organized as multiple long linear DNA molecules in complex with a large variety of proteins, such as histones, to form chromosomes.

The material within the chloroplast is called the stroma, corresponding to the cytosol of the original bacterium, and contains one or more molecules of small circular DNA.

Cranberry juice contains a high molecular weight non-dializable material that might inhibit formation of plaque by Streptococcus mutans pathogens that cause tooth decay.

Content filtering software can also be used to block malware and other content that is or contains hostile, intrusive, or annoying material including adware, spam, computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, and spyware.

When all of the sound, picture, and data elements of a production have been completed, they may be assembled into a Digital Cinema Distribution Master ( DCDM ) which contains all of the digital material needed for projection.

An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.

Each text contains material that the other lacks, with many minor differences in wording: scarcely 200 lines are identical in the two.

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

A green tinge may indicate that the hashish contains a large amount of leaf material.

For example, if a liquid or gas contains ions, then the ions can be made to flow as an electric current, and the material is a conductor.

It contains Christian interpolations in what was Josephus ' authentic material about Jesus.

A research library contains an in-depth collection of material on one or more subjects.

Bonded leather upholstery is a vinyl upholstery that contains about 17 % leather fiber in its backing material.

* This article contains material from the Library of Congress Country Studies, which are United States government publications in the public domain.

Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four " goals of life " or purusharthas ( 12. 161 ).

The modern version of a mimeograph, called a digital duplicator, or copyprinter, contains a scanner, a thermal head for stencil cutting, and a large roll of stencil material entirely inside the unit.