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248 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
there are spirits, and Swedenborg often affirmed in his
lifetime with great earnestness, and even on his death-bed
in London, where he died March 29, 1772, that he was
able to see spirits, and had seen them.
"Now as the New World really existed long before
Columbus found it out, though we in Europe were
ignorant of its existence, so perhaps there may be a
means to see spirits, though as yet we are unacquainted
in what manner the spectacles ought to be shaped to
accomplish the design. And suppose we were to make
a pair of spectacles on purpose, and to make experiments,
it does not follow that we should succeed. In the opinion
of many wise people, there lies a great deal of truth
hidden perhaps close by us ; therefore the strivings of a
good man to find out the truth, ought rather to meet with
applause than be censured with acrimony."
REMARKS
BY
THE MARQUIS DE THOMÉ, *
ON AN ASSERTION OF THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY THE KING
OF FRANCE FOR THE
EXAMINATION OF ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
" GENTLEMEN,
"In the report of the commissioners appointed by the
King for the examination of animal magnetism, these
gentlemen have affirmed that there does not yet exist any
theory of the magnet. This assertion has occasioned
* The Editors (says The Intellectual Repository for 1815,
p. 191 ,) feel happy in being enabled to lay before their readers
the above article, which contains a most able vindication of the
character of the New Church Messenger. The reader will
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