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Doc. 4.] 15
EULOGIUM ON SWEDENBORG .
influences operating in our own species. But it would be
hazardous, on the strength of what has here been stated, to
attempt to declare how much certain virtues in a family owe
to the root, and how much to art.
Still it cannot be denied, that, so long as any one has not
rendered himself unworthy, this fact alone inspires confidence,
and operates in his favour, if it is known that he descends
from what is justly called a good family ; a family, whose
home, whether large or small, has always been the dwelling
place of virtue and honour; and which has been a good and
excellent nursery of useful citizens in all kinds of trades and
professions; a family, in fact, like that from which our
SWEDENBORG derived his origin, and which was an old, honest,
and intelligent family of miners in the neighbourhood of the
“StoraKopparberget”(the “greatcopper-mountain" nearFahlun ].
In this family, a miner, of the name of Daniel Isacsson,* and
his wife Anna Bullernäsia ,+ are held in honourable remembrance
as the parents of the ancestors of the noble families of the
Schönströms and of the Swedenborgs, and of the honourable
family of the Swedbergs. $ I remember to have seen a family
register, in the form of a genealogical tree, which showed how
this family spread and extended in every branch, and became
incorporated with many other illustrious and celebrated families
of these times. But as our Swedenborg, on his part, did not
trouble himself with enlarging this genealogical tree, I too
shall pass it by, and follow him .
But, with him as a leader, I shall not dwell long on the
years of his childhood, nor shall I lose time in discussing the
exercises of his youth; for he himself pressed rapidly onward
to reach the age of manhood .
A son of Bishop Swedberg could not fail to receive a good
education, according to the tastes of his times, by which he
* For some particulars respecting Swedenborg’s paternal grandfather
Daniel Isacsson, see Documents 7 and 9A, and the beginning of Doc
ument 10.
+ Concerning Bullernäsius, the father-in -law of Daniel Isacsson, see
Document 7 and also the beginning of Document 10.
# Concerning the members of the family Swedberg, see Document 7.
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