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A53045 Ground of natural philosophy divided into thirteen parts : with an appendix containing five parts / written by the ... Dvchess of Newcastle. Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. 1668 (1668) Wing N851; ESTC R18240 124,614 322

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Builders for no Creature can subsist or consist by it self but must assist and be assisted Yet there are some differences in all Productions although of the same Producers otherwise all the Off-springs of one and the same Producer would be alike And though sometimes their several Off-springs may be so alike as hardly to be distinguished yet that is so seldom as it appears as a wonder but there is a property in all Productions as for the Produced to belong as a Right and Property to the Producer CHAP. IX Of Resemblances of several Off-springs or Producers THere are numerous kinds and sorts of Productions and infinite manners and ways in the actions of Productions which is the cause that the Off-springs of the same Producers are not so just alike but that they are distinguishable but yet there may not only be resemblances between particular Off-springs of the same Producers as also of the same sort but of different sorts of Creatures but the Actions of all Productions that are according to their own Species are Imitating Actions but not Bare Imitations as by an Incorporeal Motion for if so then a covetous Woman that loves Gold might produce a Wedg of Gold instead of a Child also Virgins might be as Fruitful as Married Wives CHAP. X. Of the Several Appearances of the Exterior Parts of One Creature EVery altered Action of the Exterior Parts causes an altered Appearance As for example A Man or the like Creature doth not appear when he is old as when he was young nor when he is sick as when he is well in health no nor when he is cold as when he is hot Nor do they appear in several Passions alike for though Man can best perceive the Alteration of his own Kind or Sort yet other Creatures have several Appearances as well as Man some of which Man may perceive though not all being of a different sort And not only Animals but Vegetables and Elements have altered Appearances and many that are subject to Man's perception The Fourth Part. CHAP. I. Of Animal Productions and of the Differences between Productions and Transformations I Understand Productions to be between Particulars as some particular Creatures to produce other particular Creatures but not to transform from one sort of Creature into another sort of Creature as Cheese into Maggots and Fruit into Worms c. which in some manner is like Metamorphosing So by Transformation the Intellectual Nature as well as the Exterior Form is transform'd Whereas Production transforms only the Exterior Form but not the Intellectual Nature which is the cause that such Transformations cannot return into their former state as a Worm to be a Fruit or a Maggot a Cheese again as formerly Hence I perceive that all sorts of Fowls are partly Produced and partly Transformed for though an Egg be produced yet a Chicken is but a Transformed Egg. CHAP. II. Of different Figurative Motions in MAN's Production ALL Creatures are produced by Degrees which proves That not any Creature is produced in perfection by one Act or Figurative Motion for though the Producers are the first Founders yet not the Builders But as for Animal Creatures there be some sorts that are composed of many different Figurative Motions amongst which sorts is Mankind who has very different Figurative Parts as Bones Sinews Nerves Muscles Veins Flesh Skin and Marrow Blood Choler Flegm Melancholy and the like also Head Breast Neck Arms Hands Body Belly Thighs Leggs Feet c. also Brains Lungs Stomack Heart Liver Midriff Kidnies Bladder Guts and the like and all these have several actions yet all agree as one according to the property of that sort of Creature named MAN CHAP. III. Of the Quickning of a Child or any other sort of Animal Creatures THE Reason that a Woman or such like Animal doth not feel her Child so soon as it is produced is That the Child cannot have an Animal Motion until it hath an Animal Nature that is until it be perfectly an Animal Creature and as soon as it is a perfect Child she feels it to move according to its nature but it is only the Sensitive Parts of the Child that are felt by the Mother not the Rational because those Parts are as the Designers not the Builders and therefore being not the Labouring Parts are not the Sensible Parts But it is to be noted That according to the Regularity or Irregularity of the Figurative Motions the Child is well shaped or mishaped CHAP. IV. Of the Birth of a Child THE reason why a Child or such like Animal Creature stays no longer in the Mother's Body than to such a certain Time is That a Child is not Perfect before that time and would be too big after that time and so big that it would not have room enough and therefore it strives and labours for liberty CHAP. V. Of Mischances or Miscarriages of Breeding Creatures WHen a Mare Doe Hind or the like Animal cast their Young or a Woman miscarries of her Child the Mischance proceeds either through the Irregularities of the Corporeal Motions or Parts of the Child or through some Irregularity of the Parts of the Mother or else of both Mother and Child If the Irregularities be of the Parts of the Child those Parts divide from the Mother through their Irregularity but if the Irregularity be in the Parts of the Mother then the Mother divides in some manner from the Child and if there be a distemper in both of them the Child and Mother divide from each other but such Mischances are at different times some sooner and some later As for false Conceptions they are occasioned through the Irregularities of Conception CHAP. VI. Of the Encrease of Growth and Strength of Mankind or such like Creatures THE reason most Animals especially Human Creatures are weak whilst they are Infants and that their Strength and Growth encreases by degrees is That a Child hath not so many Parts as when he is a Youth nor so many Parts when he is a Youth as when he is a Man for after the Child is parted from the Mother it is nourished by other Creatures as the Mother was and the Child by the Mother and according as the nourishing Parts be Regular or Irregular so is the Child Youth or Man weaker or stronger healthful or diseased and when the Figurative Motions move as I may say for expression sake curiously the Body is neatly shaped and is as we say beautiful But this is to be noted That 't is not Greatness or Bulk of Body makes a Body perfect for there are several sizes of every sort or kind of Creatures as also in every particular kind or sort and every several size may be as perfect one as the other But I mean the Number of Parts according to the proper size CHAP. VII Of the several Properties of the several Exterior Shapes of several sorts of Animals THE several Exterior Shapes of Creatures cause several Properties as Running Jumping