Spencer

<p>The Naturalistic school of philosophy postulates the existence of a composite someting which it calls "Nature," which acts as the Universal Creative Energy; other thinkers speak of "Nature" in its metonymic sense, as "The agent, producer, or creator of things; the powers which carry on the processes of creation; the powers concerned to produce existing phenomena, whether in sum or in detail; the personified sum and order of cause and effect."  Spencer postulates the existence of an "infinite and eternal energy, from which all things proceed,...which transcends our reason and even our imagination."  In short, this universal Living Creative Principle or Life-Principle, is ound, under one name or another, in nearly all of the leading philosophies or schools of thought, ancient or modern, The highest reports of the human reason agree in this conception and postulate. (Source 1).</p>