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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 -


freedom everlasting life would be unendurably dull. Freedom is the indefinite power of doing; and all our hope and strength, all the impulses of our will and the forecasts of our reason, as well as the ever increasing satisfaction in the thing well done, conclusively urge upon us that freedom is the basic law of human conduct. The world must necessarily be to a large degree inflexible, in its function of storing our collective growth; but nevertheless, the changes that we are able to work in the world are considerable. We always have before us the fact that even animal life has triumphed over its conditions, and our superior powers will conquer the world again. We have time on our side. So far, we have been dealing with moments of time as compared with the ages which the world has behind it; but the future belongs to us just as much as it belongs to the world. In facing the past we rely on the future and in this way the past also becomes increasingly ours. If we continue to strive we shall find that the

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