the core of argument retained an ongoing popularity with the reading public and served as the basis of many catechisms and textbooks that were used in Britain and its colonies until World War II when, as argued by Matthew Daniel Eddy, the existential morass of World War I undermined the moral teleology that had underpinned natural theology since the Enlightenment. Today, Paley's name evokes both reverence and revulsion and his work is cited accordingly by authors seeking to frame their own views of design. Even Richard Dawkins, an opponent of the design argument, described himself as a neo-Paleyan in The Blind Watchmaker. Today, as in his own time (though for different reasons), Paley is a controversial figure, a lightning rod for both sides in the contemporary argument between creationism and evolutionary biology. His writings reflect the thought of his time, but as Dawkins observed, his was a strong and logical approach to evidence, whether human or natural. Perhaps this explains why the Oxford constitutional theorist A.V. Dicey had his pupils read the Evidences to teach them about legal reasoning. It is for such reasons that Paley's writings, Natural Theology included, stand as a notable body of work in the canon of Western thought. Works [https://archive.org/details/principlesofmora00pale_0 The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy']', 1785 Horae Paulinae, or the Truth of the Scripture History of St Paul, 1790 View of the Evidences of Christianity, 1794 See also List of abolitionist forerunners Langcliffe Giggleswick School Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888) Edward Graham Paley (1823–1895) Henry Anderson Paley (1859–1946) Sharpe, Paley and Austin Alexander George Victor Paley (Sir Victor Paley, KBE, CB, DSO, DL) (1903–1976) [descent from uncle George (1708–1765)] Bowling Iron Works [descent from uncle George (1708–1765)] Ampton Hall [descent from uncle George (1708–1765)] References Sources Fyfe, A. 'Publishing and the classics: Paley's Natural Theology and the nineteenth-century scientific canon', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 33 (2002), 729–751. Gascoigne, J., 'Rise and Fall of British Newtonian Natural Theology', Science in Context, 2 (1988), 219–256. Gillespie, N. C. 'Divine Design and the Industrial Revolution. William Paley's Abortive Reform of Natural Theology', Isis, 81 (1990), 214–229. Philipp, W. 'Physicotheology in the Age of Enlightenment: Appearance and History', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 57 (1967), 1233–1267. Topham, J. R. 'Science, natural theology, and evangelicalism in the early nineteenth century: Thomas Chalmers and the evidence controversy', in D. N. Livingstone, D. G. Hart