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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 -


spiritual side are inseparable. The process by which the world has grown to be what it is is not a flow of blind physical forces. The spiritual evolution of the world runs parallel with its physical evolution. There is constant interaction between the spiritual and the physical, but the two do not merge into each other.

The scientific conception of the world, as Dr. Bascom points out, is that of a system of laws which sustain one another and completely cover all the phenomena of the world. The conception of a spiritual evolution concedes the validity of all the natural laws that science has discovered. The laws of nature are left full scope within their province but spontaneity takes its place with causation. Will asserts itself as life develops.

The conception of the world which evolution displaces is that of the creation of physical things possessed of their own qualities, and subject, like building material, to processes of construction which are wholly beyond the

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