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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	artery_n	blood_n	vein_n	5,874	5	10.2889	5	false

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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

their Optick observations through the several sorts of their Glasses would be a tedious work and tire even the most patient Reader wherefore I 'le pass them by onely this was very remakable and worthy to be taken notice of that notwithstanding their great skil industry and ingenuity in Experimental Philosophy they could yet by no means contrive such Glasses by the help of which they could spy out a Vacuum with all its dimensions nor Immaterial substances Non-beings and Mixt-beings or such as are between something and nothing which they were very much troubled at hoping that yet in time by long study and practice they might perhaps attain to it The Bird and Bear-men being dismissed the Empress called both the Syrens-or Fish-men and the Worm-men to deliver their Observations which they had made both within the Seas and the Earth First she enquired of the Fish-men whence the saltness of the Sea did proceed To which they answered That there was a volatile salt in those parts of the Earth which as a bosom contain the Waters of the Sea which Salt being imbibed by the Sea became fixt and this imbibing motion was that they call'd the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea for said they the rising and swelling of the Water is caused by those parts of the volatile Salt as are not so easily imbibed which striving to ascend above the Water bear it up with such a motion as Man or some other Animal Creature in a violent exercise uses to take breath This they affirmed to be the true eause both of the saltness and the ebbing and flowing-motion of the Sea and not the jogging of the Earth or the secret influence of the Moon as some others had made the World believe After this the Empress enquired Whether they had observed that all Animal Creatures within the Seas and other waters had blood They answered That some had blood more or less but some had none In Crea-fishes and Lobsters said they we perceive but little blood but in Crabs Oysters Cockles c. none at all Then the Empress asked them in what part of their Bodies that little blood did reside They answered in a small vein which in Lobsters went through the middle of their tails but in Crea-fishes was found in their backs as for other sorts of Fishes some said they had onely blood about their Gills and others in some other places of their Bodies but they had not as yet observed any whose veins did spread all over their Bodies The Empress wondring that there could be living Animals without Blood to be better satisfied desired the Worm-men to inform her whether they had observed Blood in all sorts of Worms They answered That as much as they could perceive some had Blood and some not a Moth said they had no Blood at all and a Lowse had but like a Lobster a little Vein along her back Also Nits Snails and Maggots as well as those that are generated out of Cheese and Fruits as those that are produced out of Flesh had no blood But replied the Empress If those mentioned creatures have no blood how is it possible they can live for it is commonly said That the life of an Animal consists in the blood which is the seat of the Animal spirits They answered That blood was not a necessary propriety to the life of an Animal and that that which was commonly called Animal spirits was nothing else but corporeal motions proper to the nature and figure of an Animal Then she asked both the Fish-and Worm-men whether all those Creatures that have blood had a circulation of blood in their veins and arteries But they answered That it was impossible to give her Majesty an exact account thereof by reason the circulation of blood was an interior motion which their senses neither of themselves nor by the help of any Optick Instrument could perceive but as soon as they had dissected an Animal Creature to find out the truth thereof the interior corporeal motions proper to that particular figure or creature were altered Then said the Empress If all Animal Creatures have not blood it is certain they all have neither Muscles tendons nerves c. But said she Have you ever observed Animal Creatures that are neither flesh nor Fish but of an intermediate degree between both Truly answered both the Fish and Worm-men We have observed several Animal Creatures that live both in Water and on the Earth indifferently and if any certainly those may be said to be of such a mixt nature that is partly Flesh and partly Fish But how is it possible replied the Empress that they should live both in Water and on the Earth since those Animals that live by the respiration of Air cannot live within Water and those that live in Water cannot live by the respiration of Air as Experience doth sufficiently witness They answered her Majesty That as there were different sorts of Creatures so they had also different ways of Respirations for Respiration said they is nothing else but a composition and division of parts and the motions of nature being infinitely various it is impossible that all Creatures should have the like motions wherefore it was not necessary that all Animal Creatures should be bound to live either by the Air or by Water onely but according as Nature had ordered it convenient to their Species The Empress seem'd very well satisfied with their answer and desired to be further informed Whether all Animal Creatures did continue their Species by a successive propagation of particulars and whether in every Species the off-springs did always resemble their Generator or Producer both in their interior and exterior Figures They answered her Majesty That some Species or sorts of Creatures were kept up by a successive propagation of an off-spring that was like the producer but some were not Of the first rank said they are all those Animals that are of different sexes besides several others but of the second rank are for the most part those we call Insects whose production proceds from such causes as have no conformity or likeness with their produced Effects as for example Maggots bred out of Cheese and several others generated out of Earth Water and the like But said the Empress there is some likeness between Maggots and Cheese for Cheese has no blood nor Maggots neither besides they have almost the same taste which Cheese has This proves nothing answered they for Maggots have a visible local progressive motion which Cheese hath not The Empress replied That when all the Cheese was turned into Maggots it might be said to have local progressive motion They answered That when the Cheese by its own figurative motions was changed into Maggots it was no more Cheese The Empress confessed that she observed Nature was infinitely various in her works and that though the species of Creatures did continue yet their particulars were subject to infinite changes But since you have informed me said she of the