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it by modern science, like matter is indestructible namely when it ceases to be manifest in one form it still exists and has only passed into some other form. And yet your men of science have not found a single instance where one force is transformed into another, and Mr. Tyndall tells his opponents that "in no case is the force producing the motion annihilated or changed into anything else." Moreover we are indebted to modern science for the novel discovery that there exists a quantitative relation between the dynamic energy producing something and the "something" produced. Undoubtedly there exists a quantitive relation between cause and effect, between the amount of energy used in


Notes: 

Mr. Tyndall refers to John Tyndall (1820-1893), a prominent physicist who studied diamagnetism and thermal radiation. Mahatma is quoting his book "Fragments of Science" (1871).