Produced by David Clarke and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) 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 * * * * * TO JOHN ROBERT and MARY O'CONNELL A TOKEN OF SINCERE FRIENDSHIP LISTARKIN September 1919 * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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 160 Index of Names 175 General Index 177 * * * * * SCIENCE AND MORALS I. SCIENCE AND MORALS Sec. 1. THE GOSPEL OF SCIENCE In the days before the war the Annual Address delivered by the President of the British Association was wont to excite at least a mild interest in the breasts of the reading public. It was a kind of Encyclical from the reigning pontiff of science, and since that potentate changed every year there was some uncertainty as to his subject and its treatment, and there was this further piquant attraction, wanting in other and better-known Encyclicals, that the address of one year might not merely contradict but might even exhibit a lofty contempt for that or for those which had immediately preceded it.