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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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Dee,
as
Aaron
to
Moses;
but
yet
they
proved
at
last
but
meer
Cheats;
and
were
described
by
one
of
their
own
Country-men,
a
famous
Poet,
named
Ben.
Johnson,
in
a
Play
call'd,
The
Alchymist,
where
he
expressed
Kelly
by
Capt.
Face,
and
Dee
by
Dr.
Subtle,
and
their
two
Wives
by
Doll
Common,
and
the
Widow;
by
the
Spaniard
the
Play,
he
meant
the
Spanish
Ambassador,
and
by
Sir
Epicure
Mammon,
a
Polish
Lord.
The
Empress
remembred
that
she
had
seen
the
Play,
and
asked
the
Spirits,
whom
he
meant
by
the
name
of
Ananias?
some
Zealous
Brethren,
answered
they,
in
Holland,
Germany,
and
several
other
places.
Then
she
asked
them,
Who
was
meant
by
the
Druggist?
Truly,
answered
the
Spirits,
We
have
forgot,
it
being
so
long
since
it
was
made
and
acted.
What,
replied
the
Empress,
Can
Spirits
forget?
Yes,
said
the
Spirits;
for
what
is
past,
is
onely
kept
in
memory,
if
it
be
not
recorded.
I
did
believe,
said
the
Empress,
That
Spirits
had
no
need
of
Memory,
or
Remembrance,
and
could
not
be
subject
to
Forgetfulness.
How
can
we,
answered
they,
give
an
account
of
things
present,
if
we
had
no
Memory,
but
especially
of
things
past,
unrecorded,
if
we
had
no
Remembrance?
said
the
Empress,
By
present
Knowledg
and
Understanding.
The
Spirits
answered,
That
present
Knowledg
and
Understanding
was
of
actions
or
things
present,
not
of
past.
But,
said
the
Empress,
you
know
what
is
to
come,
without
Memory
or
Remembrance;
and
therefore
you
may
know
what
is
past
without
memory
and
remembrance.
They
answered,
That
their
foreknowledg
was
onely
a
prudent
and
subtile
Observation
made
by
comparing
of
things
or
actions
past,
with
those
that
are
present;
and
that
Remembrance
was
nothing
else
but
a
Repetition
of
things
or
actions
past.
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