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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 and 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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| And if any should like the world I have made,
and be willing to be my subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such—I mean
in their minds, fancies or imaginations. But if they cannot endure to be subjects, they may
create worlds of their own and govern themselves as they please.
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| © 2020 by Sarah Reitmeier, except text from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, published 1666 by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
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