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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 -

that the world is the product of a spirit which is infinite, eternal and unchangeable, has regarded this infinite spirit as evil. Our conception of a spiritual evolution has led us to one supreme, pervasive, personal presence behind the physical world, and our instinct as well as our reason asserts that God is perfect in wisdom and love. A mechanical evolution eliminates spirit from the world entirely, but a spiritual evolution, by which the development of the world is postulated as the product of God's thought, leads us directly to God's nature as a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, and then to His attributes as perfect in wisdom and love.

Dr. Bascom's conception of immortality follows necessarily from his conception of God. Whenever our conception of the mind of the world passes over from an impersonal spirit to a personal God, we must also immediately postulate immortality. The two doctrines the existence of a personal God and the immortality of man --- are inseparably related.

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