Talk:Edward Step

Is James Weston this Edward Step?
On Amazon Books UK there is a book called Recitations and concerted pieces for Bands of Hope and Sunday Schools, Compiled by James Weston, which it states is a pseudonym for Edward Step. The question is, is it the same Edward Step as the subject of this article? Today we are used to many people sharing the same name, simply because there are many more people. (I share mine with dozens of others, including another author.) In the 1900s this would have been more unusual.

If the two are indeed one and the same, this would explain Step’s religious analogies in his writings on biology (cf. Stephen Jay Gould), and his omission of discussing evolution. However, I don’t want to wade in and modify the article until I’m sure that there weren’t two authors called Edward Step, one a naturalist and the other a churchman. --Wally Tharg (talk) 19:48, 1 September 2012 (UTC)


 * The quote at the end of the article is not by Edward Step! It’s from Henry Ward Beecher. See: Wayside and Woodland Trees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.155.115.246 (talk) 10:44, 21 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks for pointing this out – have clarified my original wording, and added another ‘Step original’ quote from the same book to make the point. Any ideas on the nom de plume issue? --Wally Tharg (talk) 23:57, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

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