Whewell was one of the Cambridge dons whom Charles Darwin met during his education there, and when Darwin returned from the "Beagle" voyage he was directly influenced by Whewell, who persuaded Darwin to become secretary of the Geological Society of London. The title pages of "On the Origin of Species" open with a quotation from Whewell's "Bridgewater Treatise" about science founded on a natural theology of a creator establishing laws: