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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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Then
the
Empress
asked
them,
Whether
by
their
Sensitive
perceptions
they
could
observe
the
interior
corporeal,
figurative
Motions
both
of
Vegetables
and
Minerals?
They
answer'd,
That
their
Senses
could
perceive
them
after
they
were
produced,
but
not
before;
Nevertheless,
said
they,
although
the
interior,
figurative
motions
of
Natural
Creatures
are
not
subject
to
the
exterior,
animal,
sensitive
perceptions,
yet
by
their
Rational
perception
they
may
judg
of
them,
and
of
their
productions
if
they
be
regular:
Whereupon
the
Empress
commanded
the
Bear-men
to
lend
them
some
of
their
best
Microscopes.
At
which
the
Bear-
men
smilingly
answered
her
Majesty,
that
their
Glasses
would
do
them
but
little
service
in
the
bowels
of
the
Earth,
because
there
was
no
light;
for,
said
they,
our
Glasses
do
onely
represent
exterior
objects,
according
to
the
various
reflections
and
positions
of
light;
and
wheresoever
light
is
wanting,
the
glasses
wil
do
no
good.
To
which
the
Worm-men
replied,
that
although
they
could
not
say
much
of
refractions,
reflections,
inflections,
and
the
like;
yet
were
they
not
blind,
even
in
the
bowels
of
the
Earth:
for
they
could
see
the
several
sorts
of
Minerals,
as
also
minute
Animals,
that
lived
there;
which
minute
Animal
Creatures
were
not
blind
neither,
but
had
some
kind
of
sensitive
perception
that
was
as
serviceable
to
them,
as
sight,
taste,
smell,
touch,
hearing,
&c.
was
to
other
Animal
Creatures:
By
which
it
is
evident,
That
Nature
has
been
as
bountiful
to
those
Creatures
that
live
underground,
or
in
the
bowels
of
the
Earth,
as
to
those
that
live
upon
the
surface
of
the
Earth,
or
in
the
Air,
or
in
Water.
But
howsoever,
proceeded
the
Worm-men,
although
there
is
light
in
the
bowels
of
the
Earth,
yet
your
Microscopes
will
do
but
little
good
there,
by
reason
those
Creatures
that
live
under
ground
have
not
such
an
optick
sense
as
those
that
live
on
the
surface
of
the
Earth:
wherefore,
unless
you
had
such
Glasses
as
are
proper
for
their
perception,
your
Microscopes
will
not
be
any
ways
advantagious
to
them.
The
Empress
seem'd
well
pleased
with
this
answer
of
the
Worm-men;
and
asked
them
further,
Whether
Minerals
and
all
other
Creatures
within
the
Earth
were
colourless?
At
which
question
they
could
not
forbear
laughing;
and
when
the
Empress
asked
the
reason
why
they
laught?
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