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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