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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
98
At
last,
having
with
much
ado
cleansed
and
cleared
her
mind
of
these
dusty
and
misty
particles,
she
endeavored
to
create
a
World
according
to
Aristotle's
Opinion;
but
remembring
that
her
mind,
as
most
of
the
Learned
hold
it,
was
Immaterial,
and
that,
according
to
Aristotle's
Principle,
out
of
Nothing,
Nothing
could
be
made;
she
was
forced
also
to
desist
from
that
work,
and
then
she
fully
resolved,
not
to
take
any
more
patterns
from
the
Ancient
Philosophers,
but
to
follow
the
Opinions
of
the
Moderns;
and
to
that
end,
she
endeavoured
to
make
a
World
according
to
Des
Cartes
Opinion;
but
when
she
had
made
the
Æthereal
Globules,
and
set
them
a
moving
by
a
strong
and
lively
imagination,
her
mind
became
so
dizzie
with
their
extraordinary
swift
turning
round,
that
it
almost
put
her
into
a
swoon;
for
her
thoughts,
but
their
constant
tottering,
did
so
stagger,
as
if
they
had
all
been
drunk:
wherefore
she
dissolved
that
World,
and
began
to
make
another,
according
to
Hobbs's
Opinion;
but
when
all
the
parts
of
this
Imaginary
World
came
to
press
and
drive
each
other,
they
seemed
like
a
company
of
Wolves
that
worry
sheep,
or
like
so
many
Dogs
that
hunt
after
Hares;
and
when
she
found
a
re-action
equal
to
those
pressures,
her
mind
was
so
squeezed
together,
that
her
thoughts
could
neither
move
forward
nor
backward,
which
caused
such
an
horrible
pain
in
her
head,
that
although
she
had
dissolved
that
World,
yet
she
could
not,
without
much
difficulty,
settle
her
mind,
and
free
it
from
that
pain
which
those
pressures
and
reactions
had
caused
in
it.
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