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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 -

through constantly modified slight changes, without any limit as to the directions of the changes.

Inheritance is at once accepted by Dr. Bascom as a primary principle in the development of life, but he points out that it is a term which evolution cannot explain and which makes its first appearance among the powers of life. It is a distinct increment. Correlation also is a primary principle in the development of life. If the horns of an animal are strengthened, the shoulders, the muscles and the organs must also be modified to meet the changed conditions; but the change results because the constructive idea requires it. An alteration in any one part of a machine does not itself produce alterations of other parts. Other changes in the machine follow only as an intelligent mind orders the changes. Correlation is a law of the organic world but it is not included in matter and force and it does show design. The law of use and disuse cannot be claimed as its own by the physical

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