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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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the Sensitive is rather an Agreement than a Constraint for in many cases the Sensitive will not agree and so not obey also in many cases the Rational submits to the Sensitive also the Rational sometimes will be irregular and on the other side sometimes the Sensitive will be irregular and the Rational regular and sometimes both irregular CHAP. XVII Of Human Appetites and Passions THE Sensitive Appetites and the Rational Passions do so resemble each other as they would puzzle the most wise Philosopher to distinguish them and there is not only a Resemblance but for the most part a sympathetical Agreement between the Appetites and the Passions which strong conjunction doth often occasion disturbances to the whole life of Man with endless Desires unsatiable Appetites violent Passions unquiet Humors Grief Pain Sadness Sickness and the like through which Man seems to be more restless than any other Creature but whether the cause be in the Manner or Form of Man's Composition or occasioned by some Irregularities I will leave to those who are wiser than I to judg But this is to be noted That the more Changes and Alterations the Rational and Sensitive Motions make the more variety of Passions and Appetites the Man hath also the quicker the Motions are the sharper Appetite and the quicker Wit Man hath But as all the Human Senses are not bound to one Organ so all Knowledges are not bound to one Sense no more than all the Parts of Matter to the composition of one particular Creature but by some of the Rational and Sensitive actions we may perceive the difference of some of the Sensitive and Rational actions as Sensitive Pain Rational Grief Sensitive Pleasure Rational delight Sensitive Appetite Rational Desire which are sympathetical actions of the Rational and Sensitive Parts Also through sympathy Rational Passions will occasion Sensitive Appetites and Appetites the like Passions CHAP. XVIII Of the Rational Actions of the Head and Heart of Human Creatures AS I formerly said In every Figurative Part of a Human Creature the Actions are different according to the Property of their different Composers so that the Motions of the Heart are different to the Motions of the Head and of the other several Parts but as for the Motions of the Head they are in my Opinion more after the manner of Emboss'd Figures and those of the Heart more after the manner of Flat Figures like Painting Printing Engraving c. For if we observe the Thoughts in our Heads are different from the Thoughts in our Hearts I only name these two Parts by reason they seem to sympathize or to agree more particularly to each other's actions than some of the other Parts of Human Creatures CHAP. XIX Of Passions and Imaginations SOme sorts of Passions seem to be in the Heart as Love Hate Grief Joy Fear and the like and all Imaginations Fancies Opinions Inventions c. in the Head But mistake me not I do not say that none of the other Parts of a Man have not Passions and Conceptions but I say they are not after the same manner or way as in the Heart or Head as for example Every Part of a Man's Body is sensible yet not after one and the same manner for every Part of a Man's Body hath different perceptions as I have formerly declared and yet may agree in general actions but unless the several composed Parts of a Human Creature had not several perceptive actions it were impossible to make a general perception either amongst the several Parts of their own Society or of Foreign Objects But it is impossible for me to describe the different manners and ways of the particular Parts or the different actions of any one Part for what Man can describe the different perceptive actions of that composed Part the Eye and so of the rest of the Parts CHAP. XX. That Associations Divisions and Alterations cause several Effects THE Rational and Sensitive Corporeal Motions are the perceptive Parts of Nature and that which causes acquaintance amongst some parts is their Uniting and Association That which loses acquaintance of other Parts is their Divisions and Alterations for as Self-compositions cause particular Knowledges or Acquaintances So Self-divisions cause particular Ignorances or Forgetfulnesses for as all kinds and sorts of Creatures are produced nourished and encreased by the Association of Parts so are all kinds and sorts of Perceptions and according as their Associations or their Compositions do last so doth their Acquaintance which is the cause that the Observations and Experiences of several and particular Creatures such as Men in several and particular Ages joyned as into one Man or Age causes strong and long-liv'd Opinions subtile and ingenious Inventions happy and profitable Advantages as also probable Conjectures and many Truths of many Causes and Effects Whereas the Divisions of particular Societies causes what we name Death Ignorance Forgetfulness Obscurity of particular Creatures and of perceptive Knowledges so that as particular perceptive Knowledges do alter and change so do particular Creatures for though the Kinds and Sorts last yet the Particulars do not CHAP. XXI Of the Differences between Self-Love and Passionate Love SElf-love is like Self-knowledg which is an innate Nature and therefore is not that Love Man names Passionate Love for Passionate Love belongs to several Parts so that the several parts of one Society as one Creature have both Passionate Love and Self-love as being sympathetically united in one Society Also not only the Parts of one and the same Society may have Passionate Love to each other but between several Societies and not only several Societies of one Sort but of different Sorts The Sixth Part. CHAP. I. Of the Motions of some parts of the Mind and of Forrein Objects NOtions Imaginations Conceptions and the like are such Actions of the Mind as concern not Forrein Objects and some Notions Imaginations or Conceptions of one man may be like to another man or many men Also the Mind of one man may move in the like Figurative Actions as the Sensitive Actions of other sorts of Creatures and that Man names Vnderstanding and if those Conceptions be afterwards produced Man names them Prudence or Fore-sight but if those Parts move in such Inventions as are capable to be put into Arts Man names that Ingenuity but if not capable to be put into the practice of Arts Man names it Sciences if those Motions be so subtile that the Sensitive cannot imitate them Man names them Fancies but when those Rational Parts move promiscuously as partly after their own inventions and partly after the manner of Forrein or outward Objects Man names them Conjectures or Probabilities and when there are very many several Figurative Rational Motions then Man says The Mind is full of Thoughts when those Rational Figurative Motions are of many and different Objects Man names them Experiences or Learning but when there are but few different sorts of such Figurative Motions Man names them Ignorances CHAP.