"Erg" Quotes from Famous Books
... of them, therefore the waste of the strings is the cause of the music, while in fact it is the hand of the player, and even the spirit behind the hand, which is the real and efficient cause of the music. So the form of the infinite and universal energy, which we may call erg-dynamic, is the cause of the waste of the body through which it works; and this is at once made good by the increased trophic metabolism which occurs, to replace the waste—this increased trophic metabolism showing ... — The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington |