Ground of natural philosophy divided into thirteen parts : with an appendix containing five parts / written by the ... Dvchess of Newcastle.

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Title: Ground of natural philosophy divided into thirteen parts : with an appendix containing five parts / written by the ... Dvchess of Newcastle.
Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
Publication: London :: Printed by A. Maxwell,; 1668.
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CHAP. XXVII. Of CONTEMPLATION.

HUman Contemplation, is a Conversation amongst some of the Rational Parts of the Human Mind; which Parts, not regarding present Objects, move either in devout Notions, or vain Fancies, Re∣membrances, Inventions, Contrivancies, Designs, or the like. But the question is, Whether the Sensitive Parts of a Human Society, do, at any time, Con∣template? I answer, That some of the Sensitive Parts are so sociable, that they are, for the most part, agree∣able to the Rational: for, in deep Contemplations, some of the Sensitive Parts do not take notice of For∣rein Objects, but of the Rational Actions. Also, if the Contemplations be in devout Notions, the Sen∣sitive Parts express Devotion by their Actions, as I have formerly mentioned. Also, when the Rational Parts move in Actions of Desire, straight the Sensi∣tive move in Sympathetical Appetites: Wherefore, if the Society be Regular, the Sensitive and Rational Parts are agreeable and sociable.