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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
119
Whereupon
the
Duchess
answered,
That
since
she
heard
by
her
Imperial
Majesty,
how
well
and
happily
the
World
had
been
governed
when
she
first
came
to
be
Empress
thereof,
she
would
advise
her
Majesty
to
introduce
the
same
form
of
Government
again,
which
had
been
before;
that
is,
to
have
but
one
soveraign,
one
Religion,
one
Law,
and
one
Language,
so
that
all
the
World
might
be
but
as
one
united
Family,
without
divisions;
nay,
like
God,
and
his
Blessed
Saints
and
Angels:
Otherwise,
said
she,
it
may
in
time
prove
as
unhappy,
nay,
as
miserable
a
World
as
that
is
from
which
I
came,
wherein
are
more
soveraigns
then
Worlds,
and
more
pretended
Governours
then
Government,
more
Religions
then
Gods,
and
more
Opinions
in
those
Religions
then
Truths;
more
Laws
then
Rights,
and
more
Bribes
then
Justices;
more
Policies
then
Necessities,
and
more
Fears
then
Dangers;
more
Covetousness
then
Riches,
more
Ambitions
then
Merits,
more
Services
then
Rewards,
more
Languages
then
Wit,
more
Controversie
then
Knowledg,
more
Reports
then
noble
Actions,
and
more
Gifts
by
partiality,
then
according
to
Merit;
all
which,
said
she,
is
a
great
misery,
nay,
a
curse,
which
your
blessed
Blazing-World
never
knew,
nor
'tis
probable,
will
never
know
of,
unless
your
Imperial
Majesty
alter
the
Government
thereof
from
what
it
was
when
you
began
to
govern
it:
And
since
your
Majesty
complains
much
of
the
factions
of
the
Bear-
Fish-
Fly-
Ape-
and
Worm-
men,
the
Satyrs,
Spider-men,
and
the
like,
and
of
their
perpetual
disputes
and
quarrels,
I
would
advise
your
Majesty
to
dissolve
all
their
societies;
for
'tis
better
to
be
without
their
intelligences,
then
to
have
an
unquiet
and
disorderly
Government.
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