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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 -

Matter has in it all the finer qualities of reason and of love. The Idealists reached Monism by asserting that the physical world we know is a world of appearance only. It is the form in which the spirit of the world appears to us; matter of itself has no reality whatever. Dr. Bascom reached Monism by postulating a unity of mind and matter. The processes of reason underlie all other processes. The development of the world is the product of God's thought. The world of experience necessarily opens with dualism, but becomes one product under reason. Matter is everywhere permeated by mind. Monism is reached by predicating a unity of the bodily and the spiritual.

It is interesting to note that the three modern explanations of the origin of the world were disclosed and rather definitely indicated by the Greeks. A superlatively intellectual people, their loose poetical religious beliefs exerted but little if any restraint upon their intellectual achievements. For the Greek gods were but little different in

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