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TESTIMONY OF THE REV. T. HARTLEY. 35
In a letter addressed by Mr. Collin to the Rev. John
Hargrove, of Baltimore, dated Philadelphia, March 16,
1801 , which was lately found among the papers of Mr.
H. after his decease, Mr. C. states respecting Swedenborg
as follows :
―
"Swedenborg was universally esteemed for his various
erudition in mathematics, mineralogy, &c., and for his
probity, benevolence, and general virtue. Being very old
when I saw him, he was thin and pale ; but still retained
traces of beauty, and had something very pleasing in his
physiognomy, and a dignity in his tall and erect stature.
On my requesting his aid in procuring an interview with
a brother lately deceased, he answered very properly, that
the partition-wall between this and the other world could
not be opened without some important cause, and not to
gratify mere curiosity. When I come to Baltimore,
sometime this spring, I shall tell you more.—I am, &c.
"NICHOLAS COLLIN."
TESTIMONY
OF
THE REV. THOMAS HARTLEY, M.A.,
RESPECTING
SWEDENBORG.
Mr. Hartley has left his testimony respecting Sweden
borg on record in the prefaces to the English editions of
the works On the Intercourse between the Soul and the
Body, and On Heaven and Hell, and in a letter to the
translator of The True Christian Religion, the Rev. J.
Clowes, M.A., Rector of St. John’s, Manchester, in
serted in the preface to that work. In the first of these
prefaces, Mr. H. says respecting his author,—
"I have conversed with him at different times, and in
company with a gentleman of a learned profession and
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