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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
seem'd
very
well
satisfied
with
their
answer,
and
desired
to
be
further
informed,
Whether
all
Animal
Creatures
did
continue
their
Species
by
a
successive
propogation
of
particulars,
and
whether
in
every
Species
the
off-springs
did
always
resemble
their
Generator
or
Producer,
both
in
their
interior
and
exterior
Figures?
They
answered,
her
Majesty,
That
some
Species
or
sorts
of
Creatures,
were
kept
up
by
a
successive
propagation
of
an
off-spring
that
was
like
the
producer,
but
some
were
not.
Of
the
first
rank,
said
they,
are
all
those
Animals
that
are
of
different
sexes,
besides
several
others;
but
of
the
second
rank
are
for
the
most
part
those
we
call
Insects,
whose
production
proceds
from
such
causes
as
have
no
conformity
or
likeness
with
their
produced
Effects;
as
for
example,
Maggots
bred
out
of
Cheese,
and
several
others
generated
out
of
Earth,
Water,
and
the
like.
But
said
the
Empress,
there
is
some
likeness
between
Maggots
and
Cheese;
for
Cheese
has
no
blood,
nor
Maggots
neither;
besides,
they
have
almost
the
same
taste
which
Cheese
has.
This
proves
nothing,
answered
they;
for
Maggots
have
a
visible,
local,
progressive
motion,
which
Cheese
hath
not.
The
Empress
replied,
That
when
all
the
Cheese
was
turned
into
Maggots,
it
might
be
said
to
have
local,
progressive
motion.
They
answered,
That
when
the
Cheese
by
its
own
figurative
motions
was
changed
into
Maggots,
it
was
no
more
Cheese.
The
Empress
confessed
that
she
observed
Nature
was
infinitely
various
in
her
works,
and
that
though
the
species
of
Creatures
did
continue,
yet
their
particulars
were
subject
to
infinite
changes.
But
since
you
have
informed
me,
said
she,
of
the
various
sorts
and
productions
of
Animal
Creatures,
I
desire
you
to
tell
me
what
you
have
observed
of
their
sensitive
perceptions?
Truly,
answered
they,
Your
Majesty
puts
a
very
hard
question
to
us,
and
we
shall
hardly
be
able
to
give
a
satisfactory
answer
to
it;
for
there
are
many
different
sorts
of
Creatures,
which
as
they
have
all
different
perceptions,
so
they
have
also
different
organs,
which
our
senses
are
not
able
to
discover,
onely
in
an
Oystershell
we
have
with
admiration
observed,
that
the
common
sensorium
of
the
Oyster
lies
just
as
the
closing
of
the
shells,
where
the
pressure
and
re-action
may
be
perceived
by
the
opening
and
shutting
of
the
shells
every
tide.
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