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    The Blazing World (1668)
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    83. DigitalCavendishProject 11 Feb 2018
      She asked them further, Whether Spirits were of a globous or round Figure? They answered, That Figure belonged to body, but they being immaterial, had no Figure. She asked again, Whether Spirits were not like Water or Fire? They answered, that Water and Fire was material, were it the purest and most refined that ever could be; nay, were it above the Heavens: But we are no more like Water or Fire, said they, then we are like Earth; but our Vehicles are of several forms, figures and degrees of substances.

      These sentences, which appear in both the 1666a and 1668 texts, contain linguistic echoes of the passage (noted above on p. 70) that was excised from this later edition.

    193. 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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