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Doc. 5.) 43
ROBSAHM’S MEMOIRS.
so that it was not at all surprising, that he could carry out
his purposes.
35. Swedenborg never allowed any female visitors to come
into his room, without calling in one of his servants ; and
whenever, as happened very often, any ladies came to see him,
especially disconsolate widows, who desired to know the state
of their husbands; or others who thought that he was a
fortune-teller, and could reveal wonderful secrets, thefts, & c .–
he always required some one to be present. “ For," said
he, “women are cunning, and they might pretend, that I
desired to become too intimate with them; moreover, it
is well known, that such people misrepresent, because they
do not properly understand, what they hear. ” Wherefore,
whenever such persons called upon him avowedly for such a
purpose, he with great firmness refused to have any thing to
do with them.
36. It is known, however, that in his youth he had a
lady-love (en maitress), whom he gave up when she became
faithless to him ; but, otherwise, there is not the least trace
in him of any disorderly love. [See on this subject, Note 27.]
37. Whatever Swedenborg wrote was printed from his own
manuscript, and he never needed the help of an amanuensis.
His handwriting was difficult to read when he became older;
but he said to me: “ the Dutch printers read my handwriting
as easily as the English.” There is one thing to be observed
with regard to most of his spiritual writings, that the proof
sheets were corrected very badly, so that errata occur very
often; the cause of this, he said, was that the printer had
undertaken the proof-reading, as well as the printing.
38. As Swedenborg, in his younger days, did not think of
the work which was to occupy him in his more advanced years,
it can easily be imagined that in his time he was not only a
learned man, but also a polished gentleman ; for a man of such
extensive learning, who, by his books, his travels, and his
knowledge of languages, had acquired distinction both at
home and abroad, could not fail to possess the manners and
everything else which, in those so-called serious or sober times,
caused a man to be honoured, and made him agreeable in
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