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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
Spirits
answered,
That
they
did
not
understand
these
three
distinctions,
but
that
they
seem'd
to
corporeal
sense
and
reason,
as
if
they
were
three
several
bodies,
or
three
several
corporeal
actions;
however,
said
they,
they
are
intricate
conceptions
of
irregular
Fancies.
If
you
do
not
understand
them,
replied
the
Empress,
how
shall
human
Creatures
do
then?
Many,
both
of
your
modern
and
ancient
Philosophers,
answered
the
Spirits,
endeavour
to
go
beyond
Sense
and
Reason,
which
makes
them
commit
absurdities;
for
no
corporeal
Creature
can
go
beyond
Sense
and
Reason;
no
not
we
Spirits,
as
long
as
we
are
in
our
corporeal
Vehicles.
Then
the
Empress
asked
them,
Whether
there
were
any
Atheists
in
the
World?
The
Spirits
answered,
That
there
were
no
more
Atheists
then
what
Cabbalists
make.
she
asked
them
further,
Whether
Spirits
were
of
a
globous
or
round
Figure?
They
answered,
That
Figure
belonged
to
body,
but
they
being
immaterial,
had
no
Figure.
she
asked
again,
Whether
Spirits
were
not
like
Water
or
Fire?
They
answered,
that
Water
and
Fire
was
material,
were
it
the
purest
and
most
refined
that
ever
could
be;
nay,
were
it
above
the
Heavens:
But
we
are
no
more
like
Water
or
Fire,
said
they,
then
we
are
like
Earth;
but
our
Vehicles
are
of
several
forms,
figures
and
degrees
of
substances.
Then
she
desired
to
know,
Whether
their
Vehicles
were
made
of
Air?
Yes,
answered
the
Spirits,
some
of
our
Vehicles
are
of
thin
Air.
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