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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 -

truth of Idealism, namely, that the plane of our experience is mental and that material objects can never come directly within our experience. He also fully recognized the significant truth that Materialism had forced to light, namely, the reality of the material world. The difficulty of the Scotch realistic view, whereby material objects were regarded as directly handled and known, was that it failed to account for error and mistake. The scientific view of the world, the reflective view of the world, is a very different view of the world than that of naïve common sense. If we can directly know the world of objects, if objects get directly within the plane of our experience, then there is no room for error or mistake. The Scotch Realism cannot explain or in any way account for errors and mistakes that are every day occurring in everyone's experience. Dr. Bascom accepted Realism as the best explanation of how the world came to be what it is, but he did not accept it in the old form. He reconstructed

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