On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or, The preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life /
But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this-we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." ^ Whewell : Bridgewater Treatise, " The only distinct meaning of the word ' natural ' is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."