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PREFACE.
WE here present to the English Reader the
following " Documents concerning the Life and
Character of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg."
They were collected and edited with great care
in the German language by the learned Dr.
J. F. I. Tafel, of Tubingen. As the theological
writings of Swedenborg are beginning to be ex
tensively read throughout Europe and America,
a great call has been made for a Biography of
this distinguished and enlightened author. These
" Documents " were collected as materials to com
pose his biography, " but as (says Dr. Tafel,* )
these Documents, when properly arranged, form a
complete body of information, which can, with
great propriety, be published by itself, I have
thought it proper to present them to the public as
a forerunner to the Biography itself, to which I
am now devoting all the time I can spare."
With respect to the following work, the Editor
begs to observe, that he has arranged the " Docu
ments " in a manner somewhat different from
that adopted by Dr. Tafel, and that he has also
See his Preface.
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