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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
148
The
Epilogue
to
the
Reader.
By
this
Poetical
Description,
you
may
perceive,
that
my
ambition
is
not
onely
to
be
Empress,
but
Authoress
of
a
whole
World;
and
that
the
Worlds
I
have
made,
both
the
Blazing-
and
the
other
Philosophical
World,
mentioned
in
the
first
part
of
this
Description,
are
framed
and
composed
of
the
most
pure,
that
is,
the
Rational
parts
of
Matter,
which
are
the
parts
of
my
Mind;
which
Creation
was
more
easily
and
suddenly
effected,
than
the
Conquests
of
the
two
famous
Monarchs
of
the
World.
Alexander
and
Cesar.
Neither
have
I
made
such
disturbances,
and
caused
so
many
dissolutions
of
particulars,
otherwise
named
deaths,
as
they
did;
for
I
have
destroyed
but
some
few
men
in
a
little
Boat,
which
dyed
through
the
extremity
of
cold,
and
that
by
the
hand
of
Justice,
which
was
necessitated
to
punish
their
crime
of
stealing
away
a
young
and
beauteous
Lady.
And
in
the
formation
of
those
Worlds,
I
take
more
delight
and
glory,
then
ever
Alexander
or
Cesar
did
in
conquering
this
terrestrial
world;
and
though
I
have
made
my
Blazing-World
a
Peaceable
World,
allowing
it
but
one
Religion,
one
Language,
and
one
Government;
yet
could
I
make
another
World,
as
full
of
Factions,
Divisions
and
Warrs,
as
this
is
of
Peace
and
Tranquility;
and
the
Rational
figures
of
my
Mind
might
express
as
much
courage
to
fight,
as
Hector
and
Achilles
had;
and
be
as
wise
as
Nestor,
as
Eloquent
as
Ulysses,
and
be
as
beautiful
as
Hellen.
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