Sentence:  Religion at its best is out in front , ever beckoning and leading on , and , as Lippman put it , `` mobilizing all man 's scattered <WSD>energies</WSD> in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs