资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Physicism \Phys"i*cism\, n.
   The tendency of the mind toward, or its preoccupation with,
   physical phenomena; materialism in philosophy and religion.

         Anthropomorphism grows into theology, while physicism
         (if I may so call it) develops into science. --Huxley.