ABSTRACT
The Law of Conservation of Energy, discovered by R. Mayer, widened in scope by the work of the English physicist and technician Joule, and finalized by Helmholtz, needs no explanation in the present day because it is widely accepted and understood. The social process is dependent on the collective energy of individuals and is always manifested in some activity, work, and the like. Social or collective energy is made up of the combined energy reserves of all the participants in a single task. A social movement that encounters opposition either becomes part of another movement or is temporarily inhibited, but it does not disappear. The recognition of individual freedom as a force that is able to influence historical events, that is, as one not subject to any laws, is to history what the recognition of the total freedom of planetary movement would be to astronomy.
