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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
67
Then
the
Empress
asked
them,
Of
what
forms
of
Matter
those
Vehicles
were?
They
said
they
were
of
several
different
forms;
some
gross
and
dense,
and
others
more
pure,
rare,
and
subtil.
If
you
be
not
Material,
said
the
Empress,
how
can
you
be
Generators
of
all
Creatures?
We
are
no
more,
answered
they,
the
Generators
of
material
Creatures,
then
they
are
the
Generators
of
us
Spirits.
Then
she
asked,
Whether
they
did
leave
their
Vehicles?
No,
answered
they;
for
we
being
incorporeal,
cannot
leave
or
quit
them:
but
our
Vehicles
do
change
into
several
forms
and
figures,
according
as
occasion
requires.
Then
the
Empress
desired
the
Spirits
to
tell
her,
Whether
Man
was
a
little
World?
They
answered,
That
if
a
Fly
or
Worm
was
a
little
World,
then
Man
was
so
too.
she
asked
again,
Whether
our
Fore-fathers
had
been
as
wise,
as
Men
were
at
present,
and
had
understood
sense
and
reason,
as
well
as
they
did
now?
They
answered,
That
in
former
Ages
they
had
been
as
wise
as
they
are
in
this
present,
nay,
wiser;
for,
said
they,
many
in
this
age
do
think
their
Fore-fathers
have
been
Fools,
by
which
they
prove
themselves
to
be
such.
The
Empress
asked
further,
Whether
there
was
any
Plastick
power
in
Nature?
Truly,
said
the
Spirits,
Plastick
power
is
a
hard
word,
&
signifies
no
more
then
the
power
of
the
corporeal,
figurative
motions
of
Nature.
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