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208 DOCUMENTS CONCERNING SWEDENBORG.
XLII.
TESTIMONY
OF THE
CELEBRATED SWEDISH CHEMIST BERZELIUS,
TO THE GENEKAL MERITS
OF SWEDENBORG’S "ANIMAL KINGDOM."
This distinguished philosopher has given the following testimony to the scientific
merits of the " Animal Kingdom" written by his illustrious countryman. It is from
a letter published in the Intellectual Repository for May, 1845, acknowledging the
receipt of an English copy of several of the works pubHshed by the *"*
Swedenborg
Association."
" The Academy of Sciences desires me to communicate the expression of their
grateful thanks both to the Society for Printing the Works of Swedenborg, and
to yourself, for this very handsome present. Permit me also to add my cordial
thanks for the second volume of the Animal Kingdom, for a copy of vt^hich I am
indebted to your obliging kindness. During my recovery I have gone through
some parts of this work, which have interested me specially; and I have been
surprised to find how the mind of Swedenborg has preceded the present state of
knowledge, writing his work at the time when he did. I hope the anatomists
and physiologists of our day will profit by this work, both for the sake of extend-
ing their ideas, and of rendering justice to the genius of Swedenborg."
XLIII.
TESTIMONY
OF
J.J. G.WILKINSON,
TO swedenborg’s general merit
AS A MAN OF SCIENCE AND A PHILOSOPHER.
{From the Introduction to the *’
Animal Kingdom")
"We cannot forbear presenting in this connection the following eloquent view of Swe-
denborg’s scientific character from the pen of this accomplished translator, Mr. J. J. G.
Wilkinson, It occurs in his Introduction to the " Animal Kingdom," p. xlv.
" He was a naturalized subject in all the kingdoms of human thought, and yet
was born at the same time to another order and a better country. To the vari-
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