fixed order

And if we have the world for the buttress of injustice, then is Nature the flaring rebel; there is no fixed order possible.

There is not only fixed order, but there is also infinite mobility in Nature.

In proving how amphibia developed into birds, he bored a hole into the hitherto fixed order of classification.

For the origin of this use of the word, cf. Old French s'asseoir en forme, to sit in a row or in fixed order.

She had never read a story, so she fancied that her secret meetings were part of the fixed order of life.