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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 -

philosophy of the past but points to Realism as the metaphysical view of the future. He sees that the world is a unity of mind and body, and ventures the statement that the philosophers must look in this direction if they are going to solve the problem of how the world came into being.

Dr. Bascom's first statement of "Constructive Realism" under that name appears in a book entitled Science of Mind, published in 1880. This book contains the substance of an earlier volume entitled Principles of Psychology, which the author rewrote for classroom work in connection with his teaching at the University of Wisconsin.

This subject was of absorbing interest to Dr. Bascom, and received a restatement by him in a book entitled Principles of Philosophy, published in 1885, and later in another book entitled An Historical Interpretation of Philosophy, published in 1893. His last statement on the subject is contained in the chapter on religion in Things Learned by Living.

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