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EULOGIUM OF SANDEL. 3
a clergyman full of zeal but free from bigotry, was still
Chaplain of the first regiment of cavalry of the guard,
when his first wife, Sarah Behm, daughter of Albert
Behm, Assessor of the Board of Mines, brought him
his second son, Emanuel Swedberg ; who was born at
Stockholm , the 29th of January, 1688.* He was named
Swedenborg, when he was elevated to the rank ofnobility,+
together with his sisters, in 1719.
Nature and art form the ornaments of the earth : birth
and education form those of the human race. A fruit
seed does not always produce a tree which yields as
excellent fruit as that which produced it ; which often is
owing to the modifications effected in the tree by art,
which occasion a difference in its products, but do not at
all alter its nature. Experience supplies us with a great
many similar instances in our own species. But it would
be hazarding a paradox were we to attempt to determine,
how far certain virtues are hereditary in families, or are
According to a letter of Swedenborg’s, written in Latin and
printed at London in 1769, the year of his birth was 1689. But
this is a mistake : for according to the note which he delivered in
himself, to be inserted in the register of the Nobles, and which
is in thehands of M. Stierman, Counsellor of the great Chancery,
independently of other proofthat might be given, Swedenborg was
born in 1688. As to the place of his birth, the register has Upsal;
but this ought to be Stockholm. [Note ofM. Sandel.]
From the fact of his having been elevated to the rank of no
bility, anhonour customarily granted to the families of the bishops,
it has been generally supposed that he had a title, whence that of
Baron is usually given him. But in Sweden there are noble
families to which no title belongs ; and the male representative of
families enjoys a seat in the House of Nobles, answering to our
House of Lords, in the Diet or Parliament of the country. Thus
the privileges attached to this rank, are, in the head of the family,
as Swedenborg was at the time of his elevation to it, the same as
belong to the lowest rank of nobility in England. In Sweden,
exclusively of the princes of the blood, there are but three ranks
ofnobility; to the lowest of which no title is attached, but only
certain privileges ; to the second belongs the title of Baron ; and
to the third that of Count. Thus the rank of Count, in Sweden,
is equivalent to our Duke, that of Baron to our Earl, and the
head ofan untitled family enjoys a rank equal to that of our Lord
or Baron. [ Editors.]
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