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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
89
The
Duchess
answered,
If
your
Majesty
will
be
pleased
to
hearken
to
my
advice,
I
would
desire
you
to
let
that
work
alone;
for
it
will
be
of
no
advantage
either
to
you,
or
your
people,
unless
you
were
of
the
Jews
Religion;
nay,
if
you
were,
the
vulgar
interpretation
of
the
holy
Scripture
would
be
more
instructive,
and
more
easily
believed,
then
your
mystical
way
of
interpreting
it;
for
had
it
been
better
and
more
advantagious
for
the
Salvation
of
the
Jews,
surely
Moses
would
have
saved
after
Ages
that
labour
by
his
own
Explanation,
he
being
not
onely
a
wise,
but
a
very
honest,
zealous
and
religious
Man:
Wherefore
the
best
way,
said
she,
is
to
believe
with
the
generality
the
literal
sense
of
the
Scripture,
and
not
to
make
interpretations
every
one
according
to
his
own
fancy,
but
to
leave
that
work
for
the
Learned,
or
those
that
have
nothing
else
to
do;
Neither
do
I
think,
said
she,
that
God
will
damn
those
that
are
ignorant
therein,
or
suffer
them
to
be
lost
for
want
of
a
Mystical
interpretation
of
the
Scripture.
Then,
said
the
Empress,
I'le
leave
the
Scripture,
and
make
a
Philosophical
Cabbala.
The
Duchess
told
her,
That,
Sense
and
Reason
would
instruct
her
of
a
Nature
as
much
as
could
be
known;
and
as
for
Numbers,
they
were
infinite;
but
to
add
non-sense
to
infinite,
would
breed
a
confusion,
especially
in
Humane
Understanding.
Then,
replied
the
Empress,
I'le
make
a
Moral
Cabbala.
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