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John Bascom's Complete Works

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John Bascom Prophet

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Introduction - The Man - The Conflict Between Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dr. Bascom's Time - Dr. Bascom's Contention that Mechanical Evolution is incomplete - Spiritual Evolution and the Modification of Religious Beliefs Resulting from this Conception - Constructive Realism / Science of Mind / "unity of mind and matter" / "the world is the product of God's thought" / The Solution of Philosophical and Religious Problems - Dr. Bascom and Present Thought - Contents -


whose hearts are encrusted beyond growth and who see in the regenerate spirit of men generally nothing but disaster.

The thing that has impressed me most in my contact with men is the universal desire for continued personal existence after death. The obstacles to a sure grasp of this faith almost always come from two sources. When the present generation of workers was in college, Idealistic Pantheism was the philosophic view generally accepted and taught, and even if a man did not go to college, his thought nevertheless was filled with this conception of how the world came into being, because the popular literature and discussion were absorbed with this idea.

Under the pantheistic view there is no room for continued personality after the soul leaves the body, and the conception of immortality was dismissed as a notion which dreamers had created. The other obstacle to faith is the general distrust on the part of hard-headed workers towards the

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