universally-present

Updated: May 3, 2025

I should like to do this not only to give a clear preliminary conception of the ways in which all organisms are affected by these universally-present agents, but also to show that, in the first place, these agents modify inorganic bodies as well as organic bodies, and that, in the second place, the organic are far more modifiable by them than the inorganic.

Herbert Spencer - Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I