Paley's famous, and controversial, fable of the pigeons, which has a strong criticism of the system of property ownership and of the draconian means used to defend it-the Bloody Code-is found in Book III of Principles.

Gisbourne's Principles of Moral Philosophy ( 1789 ) was a forceful evangelical attack on William Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ), an influential work studied at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities, arguing morality as a categorical imperative against Paley's utilitarian standpoint.

William Paley's Evidences of Christianity and Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, which were set texts.

Further works include editions with notes of Paley's Moral Philosophy ( 1852 ); Education as a Science ( 1879 ); Dissertations on leading philosophical topics ( 1903, mainly reprints of papers in Mind ); he collaborated with JS Mill and Grote in editing James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869 ), and assisted in editing Grote's Aristotle and Minor Works ; he also wrote a memoir prefixed to G Croom Robertson's Philosophical Remains ( 1894 ).

He also edited Bacon's Essays, Paley's Evidences and Paley's Moral Philosophy.

' Publishing and the classics: Paley's Natural Theology and the nineteenth-century scientific canon ', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 33 ( 2002 ), 433-55.

Some have said this book was the most original of Paley's works.

During the remainder of Paley's life his time was divided between Bishopwearmouth and Lincoln, during which time he wrote Natural Theology, despite his increasingly debilitating illness.

Thus, Paley's use of the watch ( and other mechanical objects like it ) continued a long and fruitful tradition of analogical reasoning that was well received by those who read Natural Theology when it was published in 1802.

Much of the increase was a result of Paley's second upgrade to the CBS business plan — improved affiliate relations.

Wholesome Kate Smith, Paley's choice for La Palina Hour, was unthreatening to home and hearth

Of course, its goal was more than just honoring CBS's latest " star "— it was an announcement to the world that Mr. Paley's network was finally more than just a pipeline carrying other people's programming: it was now a cultural force in its own right.

CBS was also hit, though not as severely: Paley's brilliant 1928 affiliate contract which had given CBS first claim on local stations ' air during sponsored time — the network option — came under attack as being restrictive to local programming.

Noble was being approached by other suitors, including Bill Paley's CBS, so he was not in a hurry to accommodate Goldenson.

) A weaker form of Littlewood and Paley's conjecture was found by.

Paley's recognition of how to harness the potential reach of broadcasting was the key to his growing CBS from a tiny chain of stations into what was eventually one of the world's dominant communication empires.

However, Paley's personal favorite was Gunsmoke ; in fact, he was such a fan of Gunsmoke that, upon its threatened cancellation in 1967, he demanded that it be reinstated, a dictum that led to the abrupt demise of Gilligan's Island, which had already been renewed for a fourth season.

In 1995, five years after Paley's death, CBS was bought by Westinghouse Electric Corporation and, in 1999, by Viacom, which itself was once a subsidiary of CBS.

Encouraged by Paley's avid interest in modern art and his outstanding collection, Paley became a trustee of the Rockefeller family's Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and, in 1962, was tapped by then-chairman David Rockefeller to be its president.

Paley's text even supported abolition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Anglican faith which every student at Cambridge ( and Oxford University ) was required to sign.

William Paley's " watchmaker analogy " is one of the most famous teleological arguments

Under Paley's guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States and then one of the big three American broadcast television networks.

This collection of seventeen stories features several recurring characters from Little Disturbances of Man ( most notably the narrator " Faith ," but also including Johnny Raferty and his mother ), while continuing Paley's exploration of racial, gender, and class issues.

In Britain, William Paley's Natural Theology saw adaptation as evidence of beneficial " design " by the Creator acting through natural laws.

Chapter XV of Paley's Natural Theology discusses at length what he called " relations " of parts of living things as an indication of their design.

Searing criticisms of arguments like Paley's are found in David Hume's posthumous Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

Debates over the applicability of teleology to scientific questions came to a head in the nineteenth century, as Paley's argument about design came into conflict with radical new theories on the transmutation of species.

In order to support the canonical scientific views at the time, which explored the natural world within Paley's framework of a divine designer, The Earl of Bridgewater, a gentleman naturalist, commissioned eight Bridgewater Treatises upon his deathbed to explore " the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation.

As a theology student, Charles Darwin found Paley's arguments compelling.

Intelligent design advocate Michael Behe proposed a development of Paley's watch analogy in which he argued in favour of intelligent design.

" Paley's argument is built mainly around anatomy and natural history.

Hume's examples ring true with many 21st century readers, and they appealed to some of Paley's 18th-century contemporaries as well.

Scientific norms have changed greatly since Paley's day, and are inclined to do less than justice to his arguments and ways of reasoning.

Paley's views influenced ( both positively and negatively ) theologians, philosophers and scientists, then and since.

By the 1820s and 1830s, well-known liberals like Thomas Wakley and other radical editors of The Lancet were using Paley's aging examples to attack the establishment's control over medical and scientific education in Durham, London, Oxford and Cambridge.

Today, Paley's name evokes both reverence and revulsion and his work is cited accordingly by authors seeking to frame the history of human thought.

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.

* Eddy, Matthew D., ' The Science and Rhetoric of Paley's Natural Theology ', Literature and Theology, 18 ( 2004 ), 1-22.

William Paley's Abortive Reform of Natural Theology ', Isis, 81 ( 1990 ), 214-229.

In the first year of Paley's watch, CBS's gross earnings more than tripled, going from $ 1, 400, 000 to $ 4, 700, 000.

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

It is possible that Bentham was spurred on to publish after he saw the success of Paley ’ s The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy.

He lectured on Samuel Clarke, Joseph Butler and John Locke in his systematic course on moral philosophy, which subsequently formed the basis of his Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ; and on the New Testament, his own annotated copy of which is in the British Library.

The book was published in 1785 under the title of The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, and was made a part of the examinations at the University of Cambridge the next year.

In the same year he published the first part of a tractate entitled The Foundation of Moral Goodness, and in the following year a second part, Illustrating and enforcing the Principles contained in the former.

*( translation ), Abraham Isaac Kook: The Lights of Penitence, The Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems, Ben Zion Bokser, Paulist Press 1978.

ISBN 0-8091-2159-X complete English translations of Orot ha-Teshuva (" The Lights of Penitence "), Musar Avicha (" The Moral Principles "), as well as selected translations from Orot ha-Kodesh (" The Lights of Holiness ") and miscellaneous essays, letters, and poems.

Tired of teaching, he resigned his professorship in 1785, and devoted himself to the revision of his lectures, which he published ( 1792 ) under the title of Principles of Moral and Political Science.

* Principles of Moral and Political Science ; being chiefly a retrospect of lectures delivered in the College of Edinburgh ( 1792 )

* William Paley-The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy

* Principles of Moral Philosophy ( 1789 )

* The Principles of Moral Science ( 1831 )

Her most important pedagogical works are Letters on Education, Essays on the Human Mind ( 1796 ), Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education ( 1801 ), Letters addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman, on the Formation of Religious and Moral Principle ( 1806 ), and Hints addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools ( 1815 ).

Palmer kept writing until the end of his life and published a number of different written works including " A Fourth of July Oration " ( 1797 ), and was also the author of The Principles of Nature, or A Development of the Moral Causes of Happiness and Misery among the Human Species.

O ' Rahilly's writings include: Father William Doyle, S. J .- a Spiritual Study, Electromagnetic Theory, Money, The Burial of Christ, Religion and Science, Aquinas versus Marx, Moral Principles, Social Principles, The Family at Bethany and Gospel Meditations.