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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
was
so
wonderfully
taken
with
this
Discourse
of
the
Worm-men,
that
she
not
only
pardoned
the
rudeness
they
committed
in
laughing
at
first
at
her
question,
but
yielded
a
full
assent
to
their
opinion,
which
she
thought
the
most
rational
that
ever
she
had
heard
yet;
and
then
proceeding
in
her
questions,
enquired
further,
whether
they
had
observed
any
seminal
principles
within
the
Earth
free
from
all
dimensions
and
qualities,
which
produced
Vegetables,
Minerals,
and
the
like?
To
which
they
answered,
That
concerning
the
seeds
of
Minerals,
their
sensitive
perceptions
had
never
observed
any;
but
Vegetables
had
certain
seeds
out
of
which
they
were
produced.
Then
she
asked,
whether
those
seeds
of
Vegetables
lost
their
Species,
that
is,
were
annihilated
in
the
production
of
their
off-spring?
To
which
they
answered,
That
by
an
Annihilation,
nothing
could
be
produced,
and
that
the
seeds
of
Vegetables
were
so
far
from
being
annihilated
in
their
productions,
that
they
did
rather
numerously
increase
and
multiply;
for
the
division
of
one
seed,
said
they,
does
produce
numbers
of
seeds
out
of
it
self.
But
repli'd
the
Empress,
A
particular
part
cannot
increase
of
it
self.
'Tis
true,
answer'd
they:
but
they
increase
not
barely
of
themselves,
but
by
joining
and
commixing
with
other
parts,
which
do
assist
them
in
their
productions,
and
by
way
of
imitation
form
or
figure
their
own
parts
into
such
or
such
particulars.
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