All his life up to that moment he had been most honestly certain that materialism was a fact. But he was unlike the writers in the magazines precisely in this--that he preferred a fact even to materialism.

直到那一刻，他一生都真诚地确信唯物主义是事实。但他与杂志作者们的区别恰在于此：即便与唯物主义相比，他也更看重事实。