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DE THOME’S REMARKS ON MAGNETISM. 255
Amongst others was his work on algebra, entitled, The
Art of the Rules ; a new method to find the longitude
by land and sea, by the aid of the moon ; another for the
trial of new ships, &c. &c. &c.; not to mention some
literary productions which were the first essays of a youth
which had been employed in learning the principal living
languages of Europe, and all the dead ones. He was so
well versed in the latter, particularly in Latin and the
Oriental languages, that he was consulted by those who
made the study of them their particular profession.
Posterior to the year 1734, we have of his, The Animal
Kingdom; The Economy ofthis Kingdom ; An Essay
on the Infinite, the Final Cause of Creation, and the
Mechanism of the Operation of the Soul and Body;
with a poem on The Birth ofour Globe and that of the
First Man ; works which are above all praise. But
what shall we say of his theosophical treatises, where the
greatest secrets are revealed without emblem or allegory ;
where the science of correspondences, which has been lost
for near four thousand years, and of which the hierogly
phics of Egypt were but useless monuments and relics,
is again restored ? I will say that a perusal can alone
give any idea of them ; that the more the principles,
equally new and fertile, which are accumulated in these
works, are reflected on, the more they are applied to
nature, to ourselves, to every thing that can become an
object of our thoughts and affections, the more clearly
the truth will shine, the more we shall be compelled to
pay homage to the superiority of illustration [lumières]
which has given them birth, and to acknowledge in them
the evidences of a wisdom more than human.
"As in addition to such profound and universal know
ledge Swedenborg joined the purest virtue and the
sweetest manners, he might be expected to meet with
detractors ; he accordingly has had them, and he has
them still. I have often heard him publicly decried, but
always from one of the three following motives, and with
the intention of preventing his works from being read.
Some, attributing every thing to chance, and believing in
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