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EULOGIUM OF SANDEL. 7
which are these :-1. Often to read and meditate on the
Word of God. 2. To submit every thing to the will of
Divine Providence. 3. To observe in every thing a pro
priety of behaviour, and always to keep the conscience
clear. 4. To discharge with fidelity the functions of his
employments and the duties of his office, and to render
himself in all things useful to society. Such were the
characteristic traits of Swedenborg’s mind : and whoever
thinks there is the least exaggeration in the delineation
of them, must, in some shape or other, be the victim of
prejudice. Let such consider more closely what I have
already said, and what I have still further to say.
Let us now hasten to receive him on his return from
his first travels, when we shall find him occupied with
Mathematics and Mechanics. His attainments in these
sciences soon procured him an acquaintance, and an inti
mate connexion during many years, with the Archimedes
of Sweden, Christopher Polhammer, then Assessor and
afterwards Counsellor of the Chamber of Commerce, and
Commander of the Order of the Polar Star, and who was
known afterwards under the name of Polheim. By this
connexion he not only acquired great attainments in the
science of Mechanics, but obtained the further advantage
of partaking of the very particular confidence with which
Polhammar was honoured by his late Majesty, Charles
XII., and which was afterwards equally shared by them
both. The diploma appointing him to his office of
Assessor, given at Sunden, the 19th of December, 1716,
states, that the king had a particular regard to the know
ledge possessed by Swedberg in the science of Mechanics,
and that his pleasure was, that he should accompany and
assist Polhammar, in constructing his various mechanical
works. This diploma, together with all that is related
by Dr. Nordberg, in his History of Charles XII., ofthe
conversations that this monarch often had with these two
great men, on Mechanics and other parts of Mathematics,
evinces how much he esteemed these two geniuses, who
seemed formed to assist each other, and destined to labour
together. He often made use of their knowledge and
talents ; which in both of them, especially on the subject
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