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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
Conferences
of
the
Chymists
being
finished,
the
Empress
made
an
Assembly
of
her
Galenical
Physicians,
her
Herbalists
and
Anatomists;
and
first
she
enquired
of
her
Herbalists
the
particular
effects
of
several
Herbs
and
Drugs,
and
whence
they
proceeded?
To
which
they
answered,
that
they
could,
for
the
most
part,
tell
her
Majesty
the
vertues
and
operations
of
them,
but
the
particular
causes
of
their
effects
were
unknown;
onely
thus
much
they
could
say,
that
their
operations
and
vertues
were
generally
caused
by
their
proper
inherent,
corporeal,
figurative
motions,
which
being
infinitely
various
in
Infinite
Nature,
did
produce
infinite
several
effects.
And
it
is
observed,
said
they,
that
Herbs
and
Drugs
are
as
wise
in
their
operations,
as
Men
in
their
words
and
actions;
nay,
wiser;
and
their
effects
are
more
certain
then
Men
in
their
opinions;
for
though
they
cannot
discourse
like
Men,
yet
have
they
Sense
and
Reason,
as
well
as
Men;
for
the
discursive
faculty
is
but
a
particular
effect
of
Sense
and
Reason
in
some
particular
Creatures,
to
wit,
Men,
and
not
a
principle
of
Nature,
and
argues
often
more
folly
then
wisdom.
The
Empress
asked,
Whether
they
could
not
by
a
composition
and
commixture
of
other
Drugs
make
them
work
other
effects
then
they
did,
used
by
themselves?
They
answered,
That
they
could
make
them
produce
artificial
effects,
but
not
alter
their
inherent,
proper
and
particular
natures.
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