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Title:  Observations upon experimental philosophy to which is added The description of a new blazing world / written by the thrice noble, illustrious, and excellent princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle.
Author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
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The former answered, That motion and body were not two several substances; but motion and mat∣ter made one self-moving body; and so was place, co∣lour, figure, &c. all one and the same with body.The later replied, That a Man, and his action were not one and the same, but two different things.The former answered, That a Man, and his actions were no more different, then a man was different from himself; for, said they, although a man may have many different actions, yet were not that man existent, the same actions would not be; for though many men have the like actions, yet they are not the same.But then replied the later, Place cannot be the same with body, nor colour; because a man may change his place and his colour, and yet retain his body.Truly, said the former, If Place be changed, then Body must change also; for wheresoever is Place, there is Body; and though it be a vulgar phrase, That a man changes his place when he heremoves, yet it is not a proper Philosophical expression; for he removes onely from such parts, to such parts; so that it is a change or a division and composition of parts, and not of place: And as for colour, though it changes, yet that proves not that it is not a body, or can be annihilated. The truth is, though Figure, Motion, Colour, &c. do change, yet they remain still in Nature, and it is im∣possible that Nature can give away, or lose the least of her corporeal Attributes or Proprieties; for Nature 0