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348 VIL TIME OF FREEDOM AND NEOLOGY.
music, no humour, no sympathy, though he tells us that
he delighted in children. He tells us that he walked and
talked with angels, but their conversation was usually some
what trivial. Emerson well sums up his characteristics:
11
Swedenborg is disagreeably wise, and with all his
accumulated gifts paralyzes and repels
"
(I.e., p. in). He
is naturally compared with his contemporary, Linnaeus,
who died six years later. The contrast is sad and striking
between the selfish self-centred theosophist, who had re
duced heaven and hell to commonplace, but had never
found a home on earth, and the warm-hearted, joyous and
reverent man of science, surrounded by loving pupils and
a happy family, and looking with mingled awe and glad
ness at the footprints of the Creator in the field of nature.
6. GUSTAVUS III.: HIS DOUBLE CHARACTER. PRO
GRESS AND DEGENERACY. THE PERIOD OF NEO
LOGY. FOUNDATION OF THE VASA-ORDER (1772)
AND THE SWEDISH ACADEMY (1786). BISHOP
OLOF WALLQUIST (17551800). CONTRAST BE
TWEEN GUSTAVUS IV. AND HIS FATHER. His
HATRED OF NAPOLEON AND SUPPORT OF ENGLAND.
DEPOSED 1809. CHARLES XIII. (1809 1818).
MARSHAL JEAN BERNADOTTE (PRINCE KARL
JOHAN) ADOPTED AS HIS HEIR AND SUCCESSOR.
POLITICAL CHANGES IN FINLAND, POMERANIA AND
NORWAY. THE CHURCH OF FINLAND.
Swedenborg s death in 1772 coincided with the coup
d etat by which the young king, Gustavus III., the nep
hew of Frederick the Great of Prussia, brought the period
of freedom to an end, and restored personal government.
Unlike his father, Adolphus Frederick, he was himself
born in Sweden, and his talents and his imaginative
powers, his openness and ease of manner, and his hard
work to restore his country to a high place in Europe,
made him at first
deservedly popular. He thought of
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