The Bridgewater Treatises by Peter Roget

Peter roget wrote a volume title for the treatises, which was animal and vegetable physiology considered with reference to natural theology. He ended up writing more than 600 pages for it, more than 250 thousand words. Roget believed at the time that this was the most important ject of his life. The same year that it was published, he moved into a new position at the royal inst ution. In 18 37, charles babbages wrote an unauthorized bridgewater treatise of his own titled t 9th Bridgewater Treatise. While babage didn't discount the existence of god, he strongly objected to the idea of using science to explain the divine.