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Philosophy may be defined as a unified theory of life. The function of philosophy is to explain the universe and all its constituents. To provide oneself with a comprehensive view of life, and to have this view serve as a frame of reference for all of one’s actions. “Strictly speaking, philosophy is materialism, and materialism is the only possible philosophy. For, it represents the knowledge of nature as it really exists — knowledge acquired through the contemplation, observation and investigation of the phenomena of nature itself,” wrote Indian freedom fighter and radical Humanist philosopher Manabendra Nath Roy in his 1938 opus Materialism. And while the discoveries of the quantum realm and its subatomic elements shook the foundations of material sciences in early 20th century, ‘matter’ in the sense of the substance of physical reality continues to persist. What is materialism? Materialism, simply put, maintains that the origin of everything that really exists is matter; that there

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