In that final absorption all remembrance of its past experiences is lost.

The soul reverts to the condition in which it was before it animated the body.

Necessarily, therefore, Erigena fell under the displeasure of the Church.
It was in India that men first recognized the fact that force is indestructible and eternal.

This implies ideas more or less distinct of that which we now term its "correlation and conservation." Considerations connected with the stability of the universe give strength to this view, since it is clear that, were there either an increase or a diminution, the order of the world must cease.

The definite and invariable amount of energy in the universe must therefore be accepted as a scientific fact.