designless

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Centuries of thought have failed to reconcile and fit the mind to the universe, which is designless, and purposeless, and without idea.

From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Jefferies, Richard

After saying that lightning is designless and self-created, he says, a few lines further on, that it is the Deity who bids ‘the thunder rattle from the skiey deep.’

From Interludes being Two Essays, a Story, and Some Verses by Smith, Horace

The coils and turns upon this leaf, like many other markings of nature, form a designless design, the idea of which is not traceable back to a mind.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

Ugly, designless creatures caused him to cease to look for deity in nature, where all happens by chance.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

All the designless, formless chaos of chance-directed matter, without idea or human plan, squats there embodied in the pathway.

From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Jefferies, Richard