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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World
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Duchess of Margaret Cavendish Newcastle
46
I
am
too
sensible
of
the
pains
you
have
taken
in
the
Art
of
Chymistry,
to
discover
the
Principles
of
Natural
Bodies,
and
wish
they
had
been
more
profitably
bestowed
upon
some
other,
then
such
experiments;
for
both
by
my
own
Contemplation,
and
the
Observations
which
I
have
made
by
my
rational
&
sensitive
perception
upon
Nature,
and
her
works,
I
find,
that
Nature
is
but
one
Infinite
Self-moving
Body,
which
by
the
vertue
of
its
self-motion,
is
divided
into
Infinite
parts,
which
parts
being
restless,
undergo
perpetual
changes
and
transmutations
by
their
infinite
compositions
and
divisions.
Now,
if
this
be
so,
as
surely,
according
to
regular
Sense
and
Reason,
it
appears
no
otherwise;
it
is
in
vain
to
look
for
primary
Ingredients,
or
constitutive
principles
of
Natural
Bodies,
since
there
is
no
more
but
one
Universal
Principle
of
Nature,
to
wit,
self-moving
Matter,
which
is
the
onely
cause
of
all
natural
effects.
Next,
I
desire
you
to
consider,
that
Fire
is
but
a
particular
Creature,
or
effect
of
Nature,
and
occasions
not
onely
different
effects
in
several
Bodies,
but
on
some
Bodies
has
no
power
at
all;
witness
Gold,
which
never
could
be
brought
yet
to
change
its
interior
figure
by
the
art
of
Fire;
and
if
this
be
so,
Why
should
you
be
so
simple
as
to
believe
that
Fire
can
shew
you
the
Principles
of
Nature?
and
that
either
the
Four
Elements,
or
Water
onely,
or
Salt
Sulphur
and
Mercury,
all
which
are
no
more
but
particular
effects
and
Creatures
of
Nature,
should
be
the
Primitive
Ingredients
or
Principles
of
all
Natural
Bodies?
Wherefore,
I
will
not
have
you
to
take
more
pains,
and
waste
your
time
in
such
fruitless
attempts,
but
be
wiser
hereafter,
and
busie
your
selves
with
such
Experiments
as
may
be
beneficial
to
the
publick.
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