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The Fish-Men
The worm-men are one of the many hybrid species in the Blazing World. They are natural philosophers, like the fish-men, and they specialize in studying animals, plants, and minerals on land. They teach the Empress all about life underneath the planet’s surface, help her find the immaterial spirits to settle her questions about God and the soul, and play a pivotal role in the military campaign she wages on behalf of the King of ESFI.
The Worm-Men Quotes in The Blazing World
The The Blazing World quotes below are all either spoken by The Worm-Men or refer to The Worm-Men. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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How is it possible, that a natural nothing can have a being in nature? If it be no substance, it cannot have a being, and if no being, it is nothing; […] all parts of nature are composed in one body, and though they may be infinitely divided, commixed and changed in their particulars, yet in general, parts cannot be separated from parts as long as nature lasts; nay, we might as probably affirm, that infinite nature would be as soon destroyed, as that one atom could perish; and therefore your Majesty may firmly believe, that there is no body without colour, nor no colour without body; for colour, figure, place, magnitude, and body, are all but one thing, without any separation or abstraction from each other.
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The Duchess answered, that since she heard by her Imperial Majesty, how well and happily the world had been governed when she first came to be Empress thereof, she would advise her Majesty to introduce the same form of government again, which had been before; that is, to have but one sovereign, one religion, one law, and one language, so that all the world might be but as one united family, without divisions; nay, like God, and his blessed saints and angels: otherwise, said she, it may in time prove as unhappy, nay, as miserable a world as that is from which I came.
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The Worm-Men Quotes in The Blazing World
The The Blazing World quotes below are all either spoken by The Worm-Men or refer to The Worm-Men. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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How is it possible, that a natural nothing can have a being in nature? If it be no substance, it cannot have a being, and if no being, it is nothing; […] all parts of nature are composed in one body, and though they may be infinitely divided, commixed and changed in their particulars, yet in general, parts cannot be separated from parts as long as nature lasts; nay, we might as probably affirm, that infinite nature would be as soon destroyed, as that one atom could perish; and therefore your Majesty may firmly believe, that there is no body without colour, nor no colour without body; for colour, figure, place, magnitude, and body, are all but one thing, without any separation or abstraction from each other.
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The Duchess answered, that since she heard by her Imperial Majesty, how well and happily the world had been governed when she first came to be Empress thereof, she would advise her Majesty to introduce the same form of government again, which had been before; that is, to have but one sovereign, one religion, one law, and one language, so that all the world might be but as one united family, without divisions; nay, like God, and his blessed saints and angels: otherwise, said she, it may in time prove as unhappy, nay, as miserable a world as that is from which I came.
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