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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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After
this,
and
several
other
Conferences,
which
the
Empress
held
with
the
Worm-men,
she
dismissed
them;
and
having
taken
much
satisfaction
in
several
of
their
Answers,
encouraged
them
in
their
Studies
and
Observations.
Then
she
made
a
Convocation
of
her
Chymists,
the
Ape-men;
and
commanded
them
to
give
her
an
account
of
the
several
Transmutations
which
their
Art
was
able
to
produce.
They
begun
first
with
a
long
and
tedious
Discourse
concerning
the
Primitive
Ingredients
of
Natural
bodies;
and
how,
by
their
Art,
they
had
found
out
the
principles
out
of
which
they
consist.
But
they
did
not
all
agree
in
their
opinions;
for
some
said,
That
the
Principles
of
all
Natural
Bodies
were
the
four
Elements,
Fire,
Air,
Water,
Earth,
out
of
which
they
were
composed:
Others
rejected
this
Elementary
commixture,
and
said,
There
were
many
Bodies
out
of
which
none
of
the
four
Elements
could
be
extracted
by
any
degree
of
Fire
whatsoever;
and
that,
on
the
other
side,
there
were
divers
Bodies,
whose
resolution
by
Fire
reduced
them
into
more
then
four
different
Ingredients;
and
these
affirmed,
That
the
only
principles
of
Natural
Bodies
were
Salt,
Sulphur,
and
Mercury:
Others
again
declared,
That
none
of
the
forementioned
could
be
called
the
True
Principles
of
Natural
Bodies;
but
that
by
their
industry
and
pains
which
they
had
taken
in
the
Art
of
Chymistry,
they
had
discovered,
that
all
Natural
Bodies
were
produced
but
from
one
Principle,
which
was
Water;
for
all
Vegetables,
Minerals,
and
Animals,
said
they,
are
nothing
else,
but
simple
Water
distinguished
into
various
figures
by
the
vertue
of
their
Seeds.
But
after
a
great
many
debates
and
contentions
about
this
Subject,
the
Empress
being
so
much
tired
that
she
was
not
able
to
hear
them
any
longer,
imposed
a
general
silence
upon
them,
and
then
declared
her
self
in
this
following
Discourse.
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