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PREFACE . IX
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analysed, and reasons given for either accepting or rejecting it ;
and where contradictory evidence occurred, an attempt had to
be made to arrive at the truth according to the laws of evidence.
All this entailed on the editor a great amount of labour. But
that labour, great as it was, rendered further exertion necessary.
He found it requisite to make laborious researches, in order
to obtain information respecting the life and character of the
various persons whose names occur in the documents, or who
have given their testimony concerning Swedenborg. The results
of these researches are embodied in notes appended to the first
and second volumes. The authorities chiefly consulted in
the preparation of these notes are, Anrep’s " Svenska Adelns
Ättar- Taflor," the “ Biografiskt Lexicon öfver Namnkunnige
Svenska Män,” “ Nya Kyrkan och dess inflytande på Theologiens
Studium i Sverige,” and Dr. Kahl’s “ Narratiunculæ de vitis
Hominum in E. Swedenborgii Diariis Commemoratorum ,” the
German “Conversations-Lexicon," and the “Encyclopædia Britan
nica.” It was thought it would be interesting and instructive
to those who accept Swedenborg’s testimony as a seer, to
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learn what he has said regarding the state in the other world
of the more prominent of those persons who figure in these
documents, therefore his theological works, and especially his
" Spiritual Diary," have been frequently brought into requisition
in the preparation of the notes.
At the request of the editor, the Committee of the Sweden
borg Society appointed the Rev. William Bruce, editor of the
“ Intellectual Repository," to assist him with his advice and
otherwise, in preparing the materials for the press. Besides
his assistance, help has also been rendered by Mr. James
Speirs, the publisher of the work. Notwithstanding, however,
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