Your third stricture, about Higher Powers, is also very important, and I am not at all sure that you may not be right.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
She laughed merrily at him because his face showed that he did not appreciate that stricture.
"King--of the Khyber Rifles"
Talbot Mundy
I will merely observe, therefore, that it conveys, as it were in one's watch-pocket, the whole of the argument from design; and that it is not in my opinion open to the stricture which was passed upon it by Mill where he says,-'The inference would not be from marks of design, but because I already know by direct experience that watches are made by men.
"Thoughts on Religion"
George John Romanes