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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 -

men, even aside from teaching, to which Dr. Bascom also unsparingly devoted himself until he was seventy-four years old. Like every equally strong soul, he would have delighted in robust health, and he could have attained it readily had he been willing to some extent to sacrifice the work of giving the world a rational statement of faith which absorbed him so completely. Instead, however, of stopping work at the point where full health would have been preserved, he labored nearly every day, until he sank into positive and painful depression , and yet he was able to say that on most days he reached the region of "hilarious life."

Vigor is a quality essential to any working faith. Some men accept a pantheistic conception of God which makes impossible personal relations between man and his Maker, denies any actual human freedom, and substitutes for personal immortality the continuance of the race. Other men are able to divide their minds into separate water-tight compartments,

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