Philosophicall fancies. Written by the Right Honourable, the Lady Newcastle.

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.

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OF Matter, and Motion,	page 1.
Of the Forme, and the Minde,	2.
Of Eternall Matter,	3.
Of Infinite Matter,	4.
There is no proportion in Nature,	ib.
Of one kinde of Matter,	5.
Of Infinite Knowledge,	ib.
There is no Judge in Nature,	ib.
Of Perfection,	6.
Of Inequalities,	ib.
Of Unities,	8.
Of Thin, and Thick Matter,	ib.
Of Vacuum,	9.
The Unity of Nature,	ib
Of Division,	10
The order of Nature,	ib.
Of War, and no absolute power,	11.
Of Power,	ib.
Similizing the Spirits, or Innate Mo∣tion,
Of Operation,	13.
Of Natural, or Sensitive War.	14.
Of Annihilation,	ib.
Of Life,	15.
Of Change,	20.
Of Youth, and Growth,	21.
Of Increasing,	22.
Of Decay,	23.
Of Dead, and Death,	24.
Of locall Shapes,	25.
This visible Motions in Animals, Ve∣getables, and Minerals,	26.
Of the working of the severall Moti∣ons of Nature,	27.
Of the Minde,	30.
Of their severall Dances, and Fi∣gures,	31.
The Sympathy, and Antipathy of Spirits,	33.
The Sympathy of Sensitive, and Ra∣tionall Spirits in one Figure,	36.
The Sympathy of the Rationall, and Sensitive Spirits, to the Figure they make, and inhabit,	37.
Of Pleasure, and Paine,	38.
Of the Minde,	ib.
Of Thinking, or the Minde, and Thoughts,	41.
Of the motions of the Spirits,	42.
Of the Creation of the Animall Fi∣gure.	45.
Of the gathering of the Spirits,	47.
The moving of Innate Matter,	49.
Of Matter, Motion, and Know∣ledge, or Understanding,	52.
Of the Animall Figure,	54.
What an Animall is,	55.
Of Sense, and Reason, exercis'd in their different Shapes,	56.
Of the dispersing of the Rationall Spi∣rits,	63.
Of the Senses,	64.
Of motion that makes Light,	65.
Of Opticks,	ib.
Of the flowing of the Spirits,	66.
Of Motion, and Matter,	67.
Of the Braine,	68.
Of Darknesse,	ib.
Of the Sun,	69.
Of the Clouds,	ib.
Of the motion of the Planets,	70.
Of the motion of the Sea,	ib.

I speak not here of Deiaticall In∣finites, but of grosse Infinites, such, as Philosophers call Chaos.

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