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This is the study to analyze the feeling of anxiety and find the reason of anxiety by the criticism of material civilization in the literature of Tokoku and Soseki. We find that material civilization makes people lonely and it makes people anxious. They say if the material civilization continues, then human society will reach to destruction in the future. Soseki says that human cannot control the development of science and it reaches to the crisis of destruction. Tokoku says that material civilization rob people of spirit and it makes society ruin. Soseki said that human will be not able to control the development of science and it bring to ruin of human society in the future. They warned people of the crisis of material civilization before 100years ago but we are now in the crisis of destruction of humanity and nature on earth in 21century. Two writers supported modern Japanese spirit through the literature in the modern society. They played very important role to maintain the spiritual life in the material Japanese society.