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EULOGIUM OF SANDEL. 23
kindness of them all ; an advantage which virtue and
science will ever enjoy under an enlightened government :
and what people is more happy in this respect than are
we ?
Swedenborg (and this I mention without intending to
make a merit of it, ) was never married. This was not
however owing to any indifference towards the sex : for he
esteemed the company of a fine and intelligent woman as
one of the most agreeable of pleasures : but his profound
studies rendered expedient for him the quiet of a single
life. It may be truly said, that he was solitary, but
never sad.
He always enjoyed most excellent health, having scarcely
ever experienced the slightest indisposition. * Content
within himself, and with his situation, his life was, in
in all respects, one of the happiest that ever fell to the
lot of man, till the very moment of its close. During
his last residence in London, on the 24th of December,
last year, he had an attack of apoplexy ; and, nature
demanding her rights, he died on the 29th of March in
the present year [ 1772 ] , in the eighty-fifth year of his
age ; satisfied with his sojourn on earth, and delighted
with the prospect of his heavenly metamorphosis.
May this Royal Academy retain as long, a great num
ber of such distinguished and useful members !
Thus the Chevalier closes his oration ; on which it is
needless to add any remarks to those which we have
offered above in our introductory observations. It evinces,
beyond all possibility of contradiction, that Swedenborg
was distinguished by all the virtues, abilities, and attain
* How inconsistent is this with the story which has been in
vented and propagated in this country, that he was once attacked
with a most violent fever, attended with delirium, from the effects
of which he never recovered ! In Sweden, where his personal
history must have been best known, nothing, it seems, of the
kind was everheard of. [Editors.]
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