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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53044	The description of a new world, called the blazing-world written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1668 (1668)	Wing N850; ESTC R13228	80,921	168

various sorts and productions of Animal Creatures I desire you to tell me what you have observed of their sensitive perceptions Truly answered they Your Majesty puts a very hard question to us and we shall hardly be able to give a satisfactory answer to it for there are many different sorts of Creatures which as they have all different perceptions so they have also different organs which our senses are not able to discover onely in an Oyster-shell we have with admiration observed that the common sensorium of the Oyster lies just at the closing of the shells where the pressure and reaction may be perceived by the opening and shutting of the shells every tide After all this the Empress desired the Worm men to give her a true Relation how frost was made upon the Earth To which they answered That it was made much after the manner and description of the Fish and Bird-men concerning the Congelation of Water into Ice and Snow by a commixture of saline and acid particles which relation added a great light to the Ape-men who were the Chymists concerning their Chymical principles Salt Sulphur and Mercury But said the Empress if it be so it will require an infinite multitude of saline particles to produce such a great quantity of Ice Frost and Snow besides said she when Snow Ice and Frost turn again into their former principle I would fain know what becomes of those saline particles But neither the Worm-men nor the Fish and Bird-men could give her an answer to it Then the Empress enquired of them the reason Why Springs were not as salt as the Sea is also why some did ebb and flow To which it was answered That the ebbing and flowing of some Springs was caused by hollow Caverns within the Earth where the Sea-water crowding thorow did thrust forward and drew backward the Spring-water according to its own way of ebbing and flowing but others said That it proceeded from a small proportion of saline and acid particles which the Spring-water imbibed from the Earth and although it was not so much as to be perceived by the sense of Taste yet was it enough to cause an ebbing and flowing-motion And as for the Spring-water being fresh they gave according to their Observation this following reason There is said they a certain heat within the Bowels of the Earth proceeding from its swift circular motion upon its own axe which heat distills the rarest parts of the Earth into a fresh and insipid water which water being through the pores of the Earth conveighed into a place where it may break forth without resistance or obstruction causes Springs and Fountains and these distilled Waters within the Earth do nourish and refresh the grosser and drier parts thereof This Relation confirmed the Empress in the opinion concerning the motion of the Earth and the fixedness of the Sun as the Bird-men had informed her and then she asked the Worm-men whether Minerals and Vegetables were generated by the same heat that is within the Bowels of the Earth To which they could give her no positive answer onely this they affirmed That heat and cold were not the primary producing causes of either Vegetables or Minerals or other sorts of Creatures but onely effects and to prove this our assertion said they we have observed that by change of some sorts of Corporeal motions that which is now hot will become cold and what is now cold will grow hot but the hottest place of all we find to be the Center of the Earth Neither do we observe that the Torrid Zone does contain so much Gold and Silver as the Temperate nor is there great store of Iron and Lead wheresoever there is Gold for these Metals are most found in colder Climates towards either of the Poles This Observation the Empress commanded them to confer with her Chymists the Ape-men to let them know that Gold was not produced by a violent but a temperate degree of heat She asked further Whether Gold could not be made by Art They answered That they could not certainly tell her Majesty but if it was possible to be done they thought Tin Lead Brass Iron and Silver to be the fittest Metals for such an Artificial Transmutation Then she asked them Whether Art could produce Iron Tin Lead or Silver They answered Not in their opinion Then I perceive replyed the Empress that your judgments are very irregular since you believe that Gold which is so fixt a Metal that nothing has been found as yet which could occasion a dissolution of its interior figure may be made by Art and not Tin Lead Iron Copper or Silver which yet are so far weaker and meaner Metals then Gold is But the Worm-men excused themselves that they were ignorant in that Art and that such questions belonged more properly to the Ape-men which were Her Majesties Chymists Then the Empress asked them Whether by their Sensitive perceptions they could observe the interior corporeal figurative Motions both of Vegetables and Minerals They answer'd That their Senses could perceive them after they were produced but not before Nevertheless said they although the interior figurative motions of Natural Creatures are not subject to the exterior animal sensitive perceptions yet by their Rational perception they may judg of them and of their productions if they be regular Whereupon the Empress commanded the Bear-men to lend them some of their best Microscopes At which the Bear-men smilingly answered her Majesty that their Glasses would do them but little service in the bowels of the Earth because there was no light for said they our Glasses do onely represent exterior objects according to the various reflections and positions of light and wheresoever light is wanting the glasses wil do no good To which the Worm-men replied that although they could not say much of refractions reflections inflections and the like yet were they not blind even in the bowels of the Earth for they could see the several sorts of Minerals as also minute Animals that lived there which minute Animal Creatures were not blind neither but had some kind of sensitive perception that was as serviceable to them as sight taste smell touch hearing c. was to other Animal Creatures By which it is evident That Nature has been as bountiful to those Creatures that live under ground or in the bowels of the Earth as to those that live upon the surface of the Earth or in the Air or in Water But howsoever proceeded the Worm-men although there is light in the bowels of the Earth yet your Microscopes will do but little good there by reason those Creatures that live under ground have not such an optick sense as those that live on the surface of the Earth wherefore unless you had such Glasses as are proper for their perception your Microscopes will not be any ways advantagious to them The Empress seem'd well pleased with this answer of the Worm-men and asked them further Whether Minerals and all

you to consider more the subject you speak of then your artificial periods connexions and parts of speech and leave the rest to your natural Eloquence which they did and so became very eminent Orators Lastly her Imperial Majesty being desirous to know what progress her Logicians had made in the Art of disputing Commanded them to argue upon several Themes or Subjects which they did and having made a very nice discourse of Logistical terms and propositions entred into a dispute by way of Syllogistical Arguments through all the Figures and Modes One began with an Argument of the first Mode of the first Figure thus Every Politician is wise Every Knave is a Politician Therefore every Knave is wise Another contradicted him with a Syllogism of the second Mode of the same Figure thus No Politician is wise Every Knave is a Politician Therefore no Knave is wise The third made an Argument in the third Mode of the same Figure after this manner Every Politician is wise Some Knaves are Politicians Therefore some Knaves are wise The Fourth concluded with a Syllogism in the fourth Mode of the same Figure thus No Politican is wise Some Knaves are Politicians Therefore some Knaves are not wise After this they took another subject and one propounded this Syllogism Every Philosopher is wise Every Beast is wise Therefore every Beast is a Philosopher But another said that this Argument was false therefore he contradicted him with a Syllogism of the second Figure of the fourth Mode thus Every Philosopher is wise Some Beasts are not wise Therefore some Beasts are not Philosophers Thus they argued and intended to go on but the Empress interrupted them I have enough said she of your chopt Logick and will hear no more of your Syllogisms for it disorders my Reason and puts my Brain on the rack your formal argumentations are able to spoil all natural wit and I 'le have you to consider that Art does not make Reason but Reason makes Art and therefore as much as Reason is above Art so much is a natural rational discourse to be preferred before an artificial for Art is for the most part irregular and disorders Men's understandings more then it rectifies them and leads them into a Labyrinth whence they 'l never get out and makes them dull and unfit for useful employments especially your Art of Logick which consists onely in contradicting each other in making Sophismes and obscuring Truth instead of clearing it But they replied to her Majesty That the knowledg of Nature that is Natural Philosophy would be imperfect without the Art of Logick and that there was an improbable Truth which could no otherwise be found out then by the Art of disputing Truly said the Empress I do believe that it is with Natural Philosophy as it is with all other effects of Nature for no particular knowledg can be perfect by reason knowledg is dividable as well as composable nay to speak properly Nature her self cannot boast of any perfection but God himself because there are so many irregular motions in Nature and 't is but a folly to think that Art should be able to regulate them since Art it self is for the most part irregular But as for Improbable Truth I know not what your meaning is for Truth is more then Improbability nay there is so much difference between Truth and Improbability that I cannot conceive it possible how they can be joined together In short said she I do no ways approve of your Profession and though I will not dissolve your Society yet I shall never take delight in hearing you any more wherefore confine your disputations to your Schools lest besides the Commonwealth of Learning they disturb also Divinity and Policy Religion and Laws and by that means draw an utter ruine and destruction both upon Church and State After the Empress had thus finish'd the Discourses and Conferences with the mentioned Societies of her Vertuoso's she considered by her self the manner of their Religion and finding it very defective was troubled that so wise and knowing a people should have no more knowledg of the Divine Truth Wherefore she consulted with her own thoughts whether it was possible to convert them all to her own Religion and to that end she resolved to build Churches and make also up a Congregation of Women whereof she intended to be the head her self and to instruct them in the several points of her Religion This she had no sooner begun but the Women which generally had quick wits subtile conceptions clear understandings and solid judgments became in a short time very devout and zealous Sisters for the Empress had an excellent gift of Preaching and instructing them in the Articles of Faith and by that means she converted them not onely soon but gained an extraordinary love of all her Subjects throughout that World But at last pondering with her self the inconstant nature of Mankind and fearing that in time they would grow weary and desert the divine Truth following their own fancies and living according to their own desires she began to be troubled that her labours and pains should prove of so little effect and therefore studied all manner of ways to prevent it Amongst the rest she call'd to mind a Relation which the Bird-men made her once of a Mountain that did burn in flames of fire and thereupon did immediately send for a wisest and subtilest of her Worm-men commanding them to discover the cause of the Eruption of that same fire which they did and having dived to the very bottom of the Mountain informed her Majesty That there was a certain sort of Stone whose nature was such that being wetted it would grow excessively hot and break forth into a flaming-fire until it became dry and then it ceased from burning The Empress was glad to hear this news and forthwith desired the Worm men to bring her some of that Stone but be sure to keep it secret She sent also for the Bird-men and asked them whether they could not get her a piece of the Sun-stone They answered That it was impossible unless they did spoil or lessen the light of the World but said they if it please your Majesty we can demolish one of the numerous Stars of the Sky which the World will never miss The Empress was very well satisfied with this proposal and having thus imployed these two sorts of men in the mean while builded two Chappels one above another the one she lined throughout with Diamonds both Roof Walls and Pillars but the other she resolved to line with the Star-stone the Fire-stone she placed upon the Diamond-lining by reason Fire has no power on Diamonds and when she would have that Chappel where the Fire-stone was appear all in a flame she had by the means of Artificial pipes water conveighed into it which by turning the Cock did as out of a Fountain spring over all the room and as long as the Fire-stone was wet the Chappel seemed