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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 must be wholly consistent with reason. Faith must accord with knowledge. In reconstructing the old Realism, Dr. Bascom not only presented a theory of knowledge which is simple, direct and understandable, but he offered a conception of the origin of things which agrees with experience. The world we know is partly spiritual and partly material. Dr. Bascom accepted this world as we find it and reached a Monistic view by postulating a unity of the bodily and spiritual rather than by absorbing either one into the other.

Realism since the beginning of this century has received a rapidly increasing acceptance. A most clear and convincing statement of the realistic view of the metaphysical problem is presented by Professor McDougall of Harvard in the well-known book entitled Body and Mind, which is already in its fifth edition. Dr. Case, the learned author of the article on Metaphysics in the Encyclopedia Britannica, devotes most of his discussion to an historical review of Idealism as the predominant

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