Thus, the notion of force tended to become replaced by 
     the notions of interaction  and of the energy  possessed by 
     the aggregate of a set of particles; and instead of 
     considering single bodies under the influence of forces, 
     the mathematical physicists developed theories such as 
     that of Lagrange in dynamics, in which mathematical 
     equations are obtained capable of predicting the future of 
     a whole system of bodies simultaneously, without 
     bringing in the ideas of “force” or “cause” at all. . . .

     The pre-Socratic or pre-literate philosophers like the post-
literate scientists of our day have only to listen to the inner 
resonance of a problem in order to derive it and the universe 
from water or fire or some single “world-function.” That is, the 
speculators of our time can as easily fall unawares into the 
auditory bias of “field” theory as the Greeks leapt into the