Lab
Library
Journal
Shop
Sign in
to keep
Share image
1
149
The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
·
Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
96
The
truth
is,
a
soveraign
Monarch
has
the
general
trouble;
but
the
Subjects
enjoy
all
the
delights
and
pleasures
in
parts,
for
it
is
impossible,
that
a
Kingdom,
nay,
a
Country,
should
be
injoyed
by
one
person
at
once,
except
he
take
the
pains
to
travel
into
every
part,
and
endure
the
inconveniencies
of
going
from
one
place
to
another?
wherefore,
since
glory,
delight,
and
pleasure
lives
but
in
other
mens
opinions,
and
can
neither
add
tranquility
to
your
mind
nor
give
ease
to
your
body,
Why
should
you
desire
to
be
Empress
of
a
Material
World,
and
be
troubled
with
the
cares
that
attend
Government?
when
as
by
creating
a
World
within
your
self,
you
may
enjoy
all
both
in
whole
and
in
parts,
without
controle
or
opposition;
and
may
make
what
World
you
please,
and
alter
it
when
you
please,
and
enjoy
as
much
pleasure
and
delight
as
a
World
can
afford
you?
You
have
converted
me,
said
the
Duchess
to
the
Spirits,
from
my
ambitious
desire;
wherefore,
I'le
take
your
advice,
reject
and
despise
all
the
Worlds
without
me,
and
create
a
World
of
my
own.
The
Empress
said,
If
I
do
make
such
a
world,
then
I
shall
be
Mistress
of
two
Worlds,
one
within,
and
the
other
without
me.
That
your
Majesty
may,
said
the
Spirits;
and
so
left
these
two
Ladies
to
create
two
Worlds
within
themselves:
who
did
also
part
from
each
other,
until
such
time
as
they
had
brought
their
Worlds
to
perfection.
The
Duchess
of
Newcastle
was
most
earnest
and
industrious
to
make
her
World,
because
she
had
none
at
present;
and
first
she
resolved
to
frame
it
according
to
the
opinion
of
Thales,
but
she
found
her
self
so
much
troubled
with
Dæmons,
that
they
would
not
suffer
her
to
take
her
own
will,
but
forced
her
to
obey
their
orders
and
commands;
which
she
being
unwilling
to
do,
left
off
from
making
a
world
that
way,
and
began
to
frame
one
according
to
Pythagoras's
Doctrine;
but
in
the
Creation
thereof,
she
was
so
puzled
with
numbers,
how
to
order
and
compose
the
several
parts,
that
she
having
no
skill
in
Arithmetick,
was
forced
also
to
desist
from
the
making
of
that
World.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
