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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 -

advantage is not evenly divided between ourselves and the things that oppose us, but that the advantage is all with us. We are being incorporated into the universe and not only sharing but quickening its movement.

Belief in freedom is and always has been, as Dr. Bascom contends, an absolute necessity of life. Man cannot live in a world forever closed. Under the conception of God in the old theology it was impossible to reconcile the liberty of man with the liberty of God. The liberty of God was so far-reaching as to exclude the liberty of man. The old theology always stolidly asserted the doctrine of freedom but at the same time it declared a theory which left no room for freedom. Under the old doctrine of decrees where God foreordained everything in the beginning, man was as much shut in by the will of God, as by the materialistic theory he was the sport of chance in a mechanical world. Fortunately the mass of men are not logical when logical conclusions interfere with necessary ideas. The doctrine

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