  Cavendish tells a different kind of story here. She notes that those who show discomfort with the notion that God, through His command, gave the power of self-motion to all created things, are clouded by their “ambition” (Cavendish, 209). Ambition leads certain thinkers to imagine that the immaterial substance of their souls is the only created thing that possesses self-motion. On this understanding of causation, they feel closer to God, who is radically self-moving, and superior to material things, which do not possess the ability to self-move. However, Cavendish notes, the decree from God that introduces motion into the created world is just as easily imparted to material things as to immaterial things. As such, there is no reason to suppose that He did not give the power of self-motion to material things.