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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
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The
Empress
being
thus
perswaded
by
the
Duchess
to
make
an
imaginary
World
of
her
own,
followed
her
advice;
and
after
she
had
quite
finished
it,
and
framed
all
kinds
of
Creatures
proper
and
useful
for
it,
strengthened
it
with
good
Laws,
and
beautified
it
with
Arts
and
Sciences;
having
nothing
else
to
do,
unless
she
did
dissolve
her
Imaginary
World,
or
made
some
alterations
in
the
Blazing-World,
she
lived
in;
which
yet
she
could
hardly
do,
by
reason
it
was
so
well
ordered
that
it
could
not
be
mended;
for
it
was
governed
without
secret
and
deceiving
Policy;
neither
was
there
any
ambitious,
factions,
malicious
detractions,
civil
dissentions,
or
home-bred
quarrels,
divisions
in
Religion,
Foreign
Wars,
&c.
but
all
the
people
lived
in
a
peaceful
society,
united
Tranquility,
and
Religious
Conformity.
she
was
desirious
to
see
the
World
the
Duchess
came
from,
and
observe
therein
the
several
sovereign
Governments,
Laws
and
Customs
of
several
Nations.
The
Duchess
used
all
the
means
she
could,
to
divert
her
from
that
Journey,
telling
her,
that
the
World
she
came
from,
was
very
much
disturbed
with
Factions,
Divisions
and
Wars;
but
the
Empress
would
not
be
perswaded
from
her
design;
and
lest
the
Emperor,
or
any
of
his
subjects
should
know
of
her
travel,
and
obstruct
her
design;
she
sent
for
some
of
the
Spirits
she
had
formerly
conversed
withal,
and
inquired
whether
none
of
them
could
supply
the
place
of
her
soul
in
her
body
at
such
a
time,
when
she
was
gone
to
travel
into
another
World?
They
answered,
Yes,
they
could;
for
not
onely
one,
said
they,
but
many
Spirits
may
enter
into
your
body,
if
you
please.
The
Empress
replied,
she
desired
but
one
Spirit
to
be
Vice-Roy
of
her
body
in
the
absence
of
her
Soul,
but
it
must
be
an
honest
and
ingenious
Spirit;
and
if
it
was
possible,
a
female
Spirit.
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