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Title: Science and Morals and Other Essays

Author: Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

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SCIENCE AND MORALS

SCIENCE AND MORALS
AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY

SIR BERTRAM C. A. WINDLE

M.A., M.D., Sc.D., LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., K.S.G.
OF ST. MICHAEL'S COLLEGE, TORONTO, ONT.

LONDON
BURNS & OATES, LTD
28 ORCHARD STREET, W
1919

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TO

JOHN ROBERT and MARY O'CONNELL

A TOKEN OF SINCERE FRIENDSHIP

LISTARKIN
September 1919

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These Essays have all in one form or another appeared elsewhere; and I
have to thank the Editors of the _Dublin Review_, _Catholic World_,
_America_, and _Studies_ respectively for kind permission to reproduce
them. Some of them appear as they were published, others have been
almost rewritten.

B. C. A. W.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

I. Science and Morals 1
Sec. 1. The Gospel of Science 1
Sec. 2. Science as a Rule of Life 14

II. Theophobia and Nemesis 26
Sec. 1. Theophobia: its Cause 26
Sec. 2. Theophobia: its Nemesis 44

III. Within and Without the System 56

IV. Science in "Bondage" 74

V. Science and the War 106

VI. Heredity and "Arrangement" 125

VII. "Special Creation" 142

VIII. Catholic Writers and Spontaneous Generation 152

IX. A Theory of Life