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178 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
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unanimity, watch over both the internal and the foreign administration of the
government: yet respecting the three senators alluded to, there can be no doubt
or hesitation whatever, since we have had positive proof of their integrity and
capacity.
*’Em. Swedenborg."
The following Memorial respecting Finance was also presented by
SwEDENBORG TO THE DiET OF 1761.
" If the States do not, during this diet, make some arrangement for the gradual
recal of the notes now in circulation, and the substitution of pure coin in their
stead, it is to be feared that the present prevailing dearness will constantly in-
crease, until the country becomes exhausted, when a national bankruptcy in all
paper money must be the consequence. This must be evident to every reflect-
ing person, when he considers, that a note of six dollars is now worth only
three dollars in plats (a former Swedish copper coin) in foreign trade, and two in
domestic ; and if the high prices still continue, it will probably come down to
one dollar. In such case, how can the nation be preserved from ruin ? These
grievous and dreadful events can only be prevented by the restoration of a pure
metallic currency.
" Many plans might be devised and proposed, to compel the circulation of the
notes at their original fixed value, and thus meet the high prices ; but they must
all be of little or no avail, with one exception, and that is, the restoration of a
proper metallic currency, as it was formerly in Sweden, and is now in every
other country in the world. In money itself consists the value of notes, and
consequently of all kinds of goods. If an empire could subsist with a repre-
sentative currency, and yet no real currency, it would be an empire without its
parallel in the world.
**Em. Swedenborg."
XXXIII.
TESTIMONY
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THE CELEBRATED MATTHIAS CLAUDIUS,
RESPECTING SWEDENBORG.
Matthias Claudius, called also Asmus, or the Messenger of Wandsbeck, was one of the
most favorite poets of the Germans. He was born in 1740, and died at Hamburgh in
1815. His collective works, in prose and poetry, consist of eight volumes, and were
published under the title, " Asmus omnia sua secum portans." Claudius held Sweden-
borg in great respect, and wrote the following document, which contains nothing new,
or important, in order to counteract the prejudices, which were beginning to exist against
his name. This Document was also published in the Aurora, for November, 1800, p.
219, and is as follows :
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