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    The Blazing World (1668)
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    191. DigitalCavendishProject 11 Feb 2018
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      The 1668 edition omits the following passage from 1666a:

      66a] Then she enquired, whether Immaterial Spirits were not of a Globous figure? They answered, Fgure [sic] and Body were but one thing; for no Body was without Figure, nor no FIgure without Body; and that it was as much non-sense to say, an Immaterial Figure, as to say an Immaterial Body. Again, she asked, whether Spirits were not like Water, or Fire? No, said they, for both Fire or Water, then were are like Earth; nay, were it the purest and finest degree of Matter, even above the Heavens; for Immaterial Creatures cannot be likened or compared to Material; But, as we said before, our Vehicles being material, are of several degrees, forms and shapes.

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