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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 -

is made up of individuals and if all individual life prematurely ends the increase of the race only increases the disaster. Immortality is held fast by the force of our spiritual powers. The universality of the belief in immortality in itself implies occasion for it. All general impulses in all forms of life imply exterior correlative facts. Finally the truthfulness of God calls for immortality. God would never have allowed this universal desire to absorb the thoughts of men unless the promise is to be fulfilled. The proof of immortality proceeds on the assumption that God is infinite in power, perfect in wisdom and love. We cannot reach a hopeful conclusion on any other premise, but with this assertion the conclusion necessarily follows.

Immortality, says Dr. Bascom, is the promise of faith, and liberty is the vision of faith. The two doctrines, Freedom and Immortality, are associated in the most intimate way. Without immortality, freedom would not have time to do its work and without

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