The Unity of Worlds and of Nature: Three Essays on the Spirit of Inductive Philosophy; the Plurality of Worlds; and the Philosophy of Creation (Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion)

Baden Powell (17961860) was a mathematician who held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford, and was also a priest in the Church of England. He was a defender of the claims of new scientific discoveries in the face of Christian orthodoxy well before Darwin published the theory of evolution, and drew a clear distinction in his thinking and writing between moral and physical phenomena, as being independent of each other and the fields of completely different study. Darwin himself wrote, in the Historical Sketch at the beginning of the third edition of On the Origin of Species , The Philosophy of Creation has been treated in a masterly manner by the Rev. Baden Powell, in his Essays on the Unity of Worlds, 1855. Nothing can be more striking than the manner in which he shows that the introduction of new species is a regular, not a casual phenomenon. Baden Powell (1796-1860) was a mathematician and also a priest in the Church of England. Charles Darwin said of this book: 'Nothing can be more striking than the manner in which he shows that the introduction of new species is 'a regular, not a casual phenomenon'.' spirit of inductive philosophy plurality of worlds philosophy of creation.