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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
77
If
this
be
so,
replied
the
Empress,
then
I
pray
inform
me,
Whether
all
matter
be
soulified?
The
Spirits
answered,
They
could
not
exactly
tell
that;
but
if
it
was
true,
that
Matter
had
no
other
motion
but
what
came
from
a
spiritual
power,
and
that
all
matter
was
moving,
then
no
soul
could
quit
a
Body,
but
she
must,
of
necessity
enter
into
another
soulified
Body,
and
then
there
would
be
two
immaterial
substances
in
one
Body.
The
Empress
asked,
Whether
it
was
not
possible
that
there
could
be
two
Souls
in
one
Body?
As
for
Immaterial
Souls,
answered
the
Spirits,
it
is
impossible;
for
there
cannot
be
two
Immaterials
in
one
Inanimate
Body,
by
reason
they
want
parts,
and
place,
being
bodiless;
but
there
may
be
numerous
material
Souls
in
one
composed
Body,
by
reason
every
material
part
has
a
material
natural
Soul;
for
Nature
is
but
one
Infinite
self-moving,
living
and
self-knowing
body,
consisting
of
the
three
degrees
of
inanimate,
sensitive
and
rational
Matter,
so
intermixt
together,
that
no
part
of
Nature,
were
it
an
Atom,
can
be
without
any
of
these
three
Degrees;
the
sensitive
is
the
Life,
the
rational
the
Soul,
and
the
inanimate
part,
the
Body
of
Infinite
Nature.
The
Empress
was
very
well
satisfied
with
this
answer,
and
asked
further,
Whether
souls
did
not
give
life
to
bodies?
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