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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
2
To
all
Noble
and
Worthy
Ladies.
This
present
Description
of
a
New
World,
was
made
as
an
Appendix
to
my
Observations
upon
Experimental
Philosophy;
and,
having
some
Sympathy
and
Coherence
with
each
other,
were
joyned
together
as
Two
several
Worlds,
at
their
Two
Poles.
But,
by
reason
most
Ladies
take
no
delight
in
Philosophical
Arguments,
I
separated
some
from
the
mentioned
Observations,
and
caused
them
to
go
out
by
themselves,
that
I
might
express
my
Respects,
in
presenting
to
Them
such
Fancies
as
my
Contemplations
did
afford.
The
First
Part
is
Romancical;
the
Second,
Philosophical;
and
the
Third
is
meerly
Fancy;
or
(as
I
may
call
it)
Fantastical.
And
if
(Noble
Ladies)
you
should
chance
to
take
pleasure
in
reading
these
Fancies,
I
shall
account
my
self
a
Happy
Creatoress:
If
not,
I
must
be
content
to
live
a
Melancholly
Life
in
my
own
World;
which
I
cannot
call
a
Poor
World,
if
Poverty
be
only
want
of
Gold,
and
Jewels:
for,
there
is
more
Gold
in
it,
than
all
the
Chymists
ever
made;
or,
(as
I
verily
believe)
will
ever
be
able
to
make.
As
for
the
Rocks
of
Diamonds,
I
wish,
with
all
my
Soul,
they
might
be
shared
amongst
my
Noble
Female
Friends;
upon
which
condition,
I
would
willingly
quit
my
Part:
And
of
the
Gold,
I
should
desire
only
so
much
as
might
suffice
to
repair
my
Noble
Lord
and
Husband's
Losses:
for,
I
am
not
Covetous,
but
as
Ambitious
as
ever
any
of
my
Sex
was,
is,
or
can
be;
which
is
the
cause,
That
though
I
cannot
be
Henry
the
Fifth,
or
Charles
the
Second;
yet,
I
will
endeavour
to
be,
Margaret
the
First:
and,
though
I
have
neither
Power,
Time
nor
Occasion,
to
be
a
great
Conqueror,
like
Alexander,
or
Cesar;
yet,
rather
than
not
be
Mistress
of
a
World,
since
Fortune
and
the
Fates
would
give
me
none,
I
have
made
One
of
my
own.
And
thus,
believing,
or,
at
least,
hoping,
that
no
Creature
can,
or
will,
Envy
me
for
this
World
of
mine,
I
remain,
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