"What about 'materialism' Master, could they accuse us of that?"
"Goodness no! Besides, most definitions of it are always
contradictory and debatable, as with most -isms. Look, when you
divide Reality in a material-, a Natural- part, and a god-like or
supernatural part, sperrits thus, you just have to place us in
the first. But the division is absolutely wrong when the second
part does not exist as such a well-proven hard fact as the first
part does. When therefore, only the first part, the Natural part,
exists, then we can make a division in it of the: (Purely)
physical/(Purely) non-physical pair. We, as Mind-scientists,
with an interesse for physics too, could not be regarded then as
materialists or mechanists, because our main spring is in the
(Natural) occurrence of Mind-, Life-, ideative- phenomena. Let us
therefore be named after the only criterion for any scientist
thinkable, i.e. as Free Thinkers. We are students of Nature,
advocates of the Way, i.e. without sperrits."