The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.
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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
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A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.
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Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
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But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.
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