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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 -

men are keenly interested in religious questions, but the generally halting and timid movement of the churches has made men doubtful. The churches have never had the courage to see this application of the "Secret of Christ"; that men, in order to find faith, must first lose it. Dr. Bascom used to assert that the difficulties of life were never with the terms of life but always with life itself. The difficulties of life are in each man's spirit and not in the circumstances which surround him. To this thinker the purposes of education were to redeem life from life itself.

Dr. Bascom made significant sacrifices in the interest of liberty of thought. It required great moral and intellectual courage to dare to think and to speak as he did in his time. Like the prophets of old, John Bascom was a character of great grandeur who heard the voice of God in his heart and had the courage to declare his message long before the world was able to comprehend its force. Intellectual

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