...distinctly be borne in mind that by Nature, though it is difficult to avoid personifying it, he meant "only the aggregate action and product of many natural...laws, — and by laws only the ascertained sequence of events. He found it difficult to admit of any personality or designer in any way using natural selection...

...affinities of the various elements? So again it is difficult to avoid personifying the word Nature; but I mean by Nature, only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws the sequence of events as ascertained by us." 1.1. ch. IV (p. 63). Vererbung, Ordnungen der fruchtbaren...

...these pages, and he will remember that when I speak of 'Nature' I have in mind Darwin's definition: 'I mean by Nature only the aggregate action and product of many natural laws, and by laws sequences of events as ascertained by us.' Under the term 'Display' I include movements, postures and...