Science and Morals and Other Essays

"Science and Morals and Other Essays" by Sir Bertram C. A. Windle is a series of reflections from the early 1900s, probing the links between science and what's right and wrong, and investigates how new discoveries change society's ideas of morality. Starting with considering science's perspective on how we inherit traits, how we change over time, and the part morality plays in being human, the author thinks deeply about how scientific conversations have changed, especially before World War I. He shows that heredity and natural selection are intricate subjects and he questions whether science alone can guide our sense of right and wrong, which builds the core conflict in the book.