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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 -

it and gave the name "Constructive Realism" to his system of philosophy. He agreed with the Idealists that the only thing which mind can know directly is mind, but he emphatically denied the assertion of the Idealists that because we cannot know the world directly we cannot know it at all. The limitations of direct knowledge are necessarily imposed upon man by man's nature, but man is furnished facilities for indirect knowledge which are adequate to man's needs and which science every day employs in its sphere. Reason uses both inductive and deductive processes. The access to knowledge is the same in philosophy as in science. Where Berkeley and Kant and the other Idealists concededly went wrong was in expecting of man a kind of knowledge which from the very nature of the case is impossible. Man is finite and because of the limitations of his nature he cannot know absolutely and beyond the shadow of doubt, except as to his own mind. The phenomena of the world, that is, the impressions

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