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PART I.
TESTIMOi\Y OF PEKSONAL FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF
SWEDENBORG.
I.
EULOGIUM
ON
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG.
Pronounced in the Great Hall of the House of Nobles, in the name of the Royal Academy
of Sciences of Stockholm, October 7, 1772, by M. Samuel Sandel, Counsellor of the
Royal Board of Minesy Knight of the Polar Star, and Member of the said Academy,
TRANSLATED FROM THE SWEDISH.
Gentlemen,
Permit me to entertain you this day upon a subject, which is not of an ab-
stracted or remote nature, but is intended to revive the agreeable remembrance
of a man celebrated for his virtues and his knowledge, one of the oldest mem-
bers of this Academy, and one whom we all knew and loved.
The sentiments of esteem and friendship with which we all regarded the late
M. Emanuel Swedenborg, assure me of the pleasure with which you will listen
to me while he is the subject of my discourse : happy should I be could I an-
swer your expectations, and draw his eulogium in the manner it deserves
!
But if there are some countenances, of which, as the painters assure us, it is ex-
tremely difficult to give an exact likeness, how difficult then must it be to delin-
eate that of a vast and sublime genius, who never knew either repose or fatigue
;
who, occupied with the sciences the most profound, was long engaged with re-
searches into the secrets of nature, and who, in his latter years, applied all his
efforts to unveil the greatest mysteries ; who, to arrive at certain branches of
knowledge, opened for himself a way of his own, without ever straying from
sound morals and true piety ; who, being endowed with a strength of faculties
truly extraordinary, m the decline of his age, boldly elevated his thoughts still
further and soared to the greatest heights to which the intellectual faculty can
rise ; and who, finally, has given occasion to form respecting him a multitude
of opinions, differing as much from each other as do the minds of the different
men by whom they are formed
!
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