THE WELL

The prolific Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) published books on natural philosophy as well as stories, plays, poems, orations, allego ries, and letters. Her mature philosophical system offered a unique panpsychist theory of Nature as composed of a continuous, non-at omistic, perceiving, knowing matter. In contrast to the dominant philosophical thinking of her day, Cavendish argued that all matter has free will and can choose whether or not to follow Nature's rules. The Well-Ordered Universe explores the development of Cavendi sh's nat...[Read more]