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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 -

We cannot establish immortality without God, and without immortality a world which is the development of God's thought is unthinkable.

Dr. Bascom did not infer immortality from our physical constitution. This is strictly mortal, giving no promise beyond the present. Under a merely physical evolution he would abandon all idea of immortality. He inferred immortality from our own rational constitution in connection with the character of God. Science has nothing to say about the question one way or the other. The life of man when it terminates in death is not to be exhausted in its intellectual and spiritual resources; for man's higher powers are capable of indefinite growth. The whole object of evolution, the finished labor of life, would be lost without immortality. Nothing is more opposed to evolution than purposeless movement or an insufficient issue. Some try to save evolution while giving up the individual, by granting immortality to the race; but the race

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