Chap. 23. Of Annihilation.
THere can be no Annihilation in Nature: nor particular mo∣tions, and Figures, because the matter remains that was the
The philosphical and physical opinions written by Her Excellency the Lady Marchionesse of Newcastle.
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- Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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Cause of those Motions and Figures. As for particular figures, although every part is separated that made such a figure, yet it is not Annihilated; because those parts remain that made it. So as it is not impossible but the same particular Figures may be erected by the same motions, that joyned those parts, and in the matter may repeat the same motion eternally so by successi∣on: and the same matter in a figure may be erected and dis∣persed eternally. Thus the dispersing of the matter into par∣ticular* 1.1 figures by an Alteration of motion, we call Death; and the joyning of parts to create a Figure, we call life. Death is a Separation, life is a Contraction.
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Either by Growth, or Sense, or Reason.