History of Chemistry in Ancient and Medieval India, Incorporating the History of Hindu Chemistry by Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray c39.s2.8

c39.s2.8

What we call the qualities of things are only modes of Energy acting in those collocations And these various energies are sometimes actual (kinetic), sometimes potential, rising to actuality, and sometimes sublatent, subsiding from actuality into sublatency. In fact, the original Energy is one and ubiquitous and everything, therefore, exists in everything else potentially, without prejudice to the generic and specific differences of things. Inorganic matter, vegetable organisms, and animal organisms are essentially and ultimately one so far as and Energy are concerned; but the varied forms of Energy and the generic and specific qualities (or properties) of things, which are but modes of Energy, follow a definite unalterable law in the order of their appearance and succession, under conditions of space, time, mode and causality, and hence all effects do not manifest themselves at once.