Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
1
149
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
·
Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
43
Then,
I
pray
inform
me,
said
the
Empress,
what
disguise
those
seeds
put
on,
and
how
they
do
conceal
themselves
in
their
Transmutations?
They
answered,
That
seeds
did
no
ways
disguise
or
conceal,
but
rather
divulge
themselves
in
the
multiplication
of
their
off-spring;
onely
they
did
hide
and
conceal
themselves
from
their
sensitive
perceptions
so,
that
their
figurative
and
productive
motions
were
not
perceptible
by
Animal
Creatures.
Again,
the
Empress
asked
them,
whether
there
were
any
Non-beings
within
the
Earth?
To
which
they
answered,
That
they
never
heard
of
any
such
thing;
and
that,
if
her
Majesty
would
know
the
truth
thereof,
she
must
ask
those
Creatures
that
are
called
Immaterial
spirits,
which
had
a
great
affinity
with
Non-beings,
and
perhaps
could
give
her
a
satisfactory
answer
to
this
question.
Then
she
desired
to
be
informed,
What
opinion
they
had
of
the
beginning
of
Forms?
They
told
her
Majesty,
That
they
did
not
understand
what
she
meant
by
this
expression;
For,
said
they,
there
is
no
beginning
in
Nature,
no
not
of
Particulars;
by
reason
Nature
is
Eternal
and
Infinite,
and
her
particulars
are
subject
to
infinite
changes
and
transmutations
by
vertue
of
their
own
Corporeal,
figurative
self-motions;
so
that
there's
nothing
new
in
Nature,
not
properly
a
beginning
of
any
thing.
The
Empress
seem'd
well
satisfied
with
all
those
answers,
and
enquired
further,
Whether
there
was
no
Art
used
by
those
Creatures
that
live
within
the
Earth?
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
