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SCIENCE AND MORALS

SCIENCE AND MORALS AND OTHER ESSAYS

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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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

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

II. Theophobia and Nemesis 26 § 1. Theophobia: its Cause 26 § 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 160

Index of Names 175

General Index 177

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