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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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If
this
be
so,
replied
the
Empress,
How
comes
it
then
that
you
can
move
so
suddenly
at
a
vast
distance?
They
answered,
That
some
sorts
of
matter
were
more
pure,
rare,
and
consequently
more
light
and
agil
then
others;
and
this
was
the
reason
for
their
quick
and
sudden
motions.
Then
the
Empress
asked
them,
Whether
they
could
speak
without
a
body,
or
bodily
organs?
No,
said
they;
nor
could
we
have
any
bodily
sense,
but
onely
knowledg.
she
asked,
Whether
they
could
have
Knowledg
without
Body?
Not
a
Natural,
answered
they,
but
a
Supernatural
Knowledg,
which
is
a
far
better
Knowledg
then
a
Natural.
Then
she
asked
them,
Whether
they
had
a
General
or
Universal
Knowledg?
They
answered,
Single
or
particular
created
Spirits,
have
not;
for
not
any
Creature,
but
God
Himself,
can
have
an
absolute
and
perfect
knowledg
of
all
things.
The
Empress
asked
them
further,
Whether
Spirits
had
inward
and
outward
parts?
No,
answered
they;
for
parts
onely
belong
to
bodies,
not
to
Spirits.
Again,
she
asked
them,
Whether
their
Vehicles
were
living
Bodies?
They
are
Self-moving
Bodies,
answered
they,
and
therefore
they
must
needs
be
living;
for
nothing
can
move
it
self,
without
it
hath
life.
Then,
said
she,
it
must
necessarily
follow,
that
this
living,
Self-moving
Body
gives
motion
to
the
Spirit,
and
not
the
Spirit
motion
to
the
Body,
as
its
Vehicle.
You
say
very
true,
answered
they,
and
we
told
you
this
before.
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