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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
149
But
I
esteeming
Peace
before
Warr,
Wit
before
Policy,
Honesty
before
Beauty;
instead
of
the
figures
of
Alexander,
Cesar,
Hector,
Achilles,
Nestor,
Ulysses,
Hellen,
&c.
chose
rather
the
figure
of
Honest
Margaret
Newcastle,
which
now
I
would
not
change
for
all
this
Terrestrial
World;
and
if
any
should
like
the
World
I
have
made,
and
be
willing
to
be
my
Subjects,
they
may
imagine
themselves
such,
and
they
are
such,
I
mean
in
their
Minds,
Fancies
or
Imaginations;
but
if
they
cannot
endure
to
be
Subjects,
they
may
create
Worlds
of
their
own,
and
Govern
themselves
as
they
please.
But
yet
let
them
have
a
care,
not
to
prove
unjust
Usurpers,
and
to
rob
me
of
mine:
for,
concerning
the
Philosophical-world,
I
am
Empress
of
it
my
self;
and
as
for
the
Blazing-World,
it
having
an
Empress
already,
who
rules
it
with
great
Wisdom
and
Conduct,
which
Empress
is
my
dear
Platonick
Friend;
I
shall
never
prove
so
unjust,
treacherous
and
unworthy
to
her,
as
to
disturb
her
Government,
much
less
to
depose
her
from
her
Imperial
Throne,
for
the
sake
of
any
other,
but
rather
chuse
to
create
another
World
for
another
Friend.
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