 We might want to be more skeptical of this last passage, because Cavendish is making a claim that makes reference to the nature and activity of a being of which she thinks we have no idea, but the claim is still suggestive. Bracketing a miracle, nothing can happen in nature in any other way than it happens in fact, she is saying, but she also supposes that bodies are still generally speaking free. They are free, she indicates in the other two passages, when their activity and behavior is not obstructed or constrained.