 Like many of her seventeenth-century contemporaries, Cavendish subscribes to the view that the universe is a plenum of contiguous bodies and that there is no empty space. We might wonder how individual bodies would have any freedom or wiggle room to behave as they please if they are so surrounded and tightly packed in. As we have seen, Cavendish holds that bodies sometimes dominate and over-power the bodies that surround them, but she thereby suggests that bodies are sometimes not dominated. She writes for example that