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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 -

their nature from men, and the ideas of the Greeks in regard to them did not interfere with the freedom of thought about this world of ours. Greek philosophy begins with Thales, who lived about 620 B.C., and reached its height with Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.

Democritus, who was a contemporary of Socrates, conceived of the world as a purely material world made up of atoms. Plato introduced an ideal element into the world, the ideal and the material elements being at war.

Aristotle conceived of the world as a spiritual and material unity. Philosophic thought of all intervening time comes back to and centres around some one of these explanations of Greek Philosophy. Each successive restatement tends to eliminate some of the errors and to enlarge some of the truths embodied in each. The scholastic philosophers, under the necessity of making their doctrine harmonious with religious faith, found the views of Aristotle adaptable. The intervening period between medieval and modern philosophy was occupied

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