Note 3 — (B) PRINCIPLES OF THE NEW CLASSIFICATION OF THE PATENT OFFICE.
Reading edition
By "natural law" in the useful arts is meant that uniformity of action which is manifested whenever any particular substance in any particular condition is brought into such relation with any particular manifestation of energy that the force exerted modifies or prevents modification of the form, nature, condition, or locus of the substance or modifies the manifestation of energy or both.