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262 [Doc. 61.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDEN CE.
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the number which will be issued at the close of the year, or in
that for the month of October. It may also be dedicated,
according to our plan, to His Majesty,* if permission be
obtained. Perhaps we may then have more potentates in the
country ; more, indeed, than Sweden can bear. $ It seems to
me that Sweden is now prostrated, and that she will soon be
in her last agony, when she will probably kick for the last
time. Many perhaps wish that the affliction may be short,
and that we may be released; yet we have scarcely anything
better to expect, Si Spiritus ILLUM maneat — if the spirit
(i. e. death?) awaits him [Charles XII ).
I thank you for the favour of taking care for me of that
little sum. Methinks that the whole world will soon be filled
with jetsam (i. e. with things thrown overboard), wherefore
I am glad that my possessions are in such good care and in
such a safe place with you.
Pålhammar has not come down, and, as I infer from his
letter by the last post, all good propositions and all good
plans will come to nothing.
The month of July is the time for Dædalus, part iii, to
appear ; I do not know whether I am not over-taxing your
kindness, in asking you to take care of this, as you have
done of the former. Brother Gustaf66 will perhaps have the
goodness to have the plate well printed; the whole of it is to
be printed, but so that only a quarto leaf will be required. It
would be well, if the plate could first be corrected; at least that
those letters be added, which I put down in the first proof
sheet I sent off. If Dr. Roberg ? could be induced to continue
his first article, according to a promise which he made in it, it
would be well; because all this is just as interesting as useful.
I ought to be present myself at Upsal; but you scarcely
know now where you are safest; and moreover, it is my
intention to save all expenses, until I have an opportunity
of seeking my fortune, when these same savings may make
my greatest fortune, if well applied.
I wonder at your friends, the mathematicians, who have
* Concerning this dedication see Document 50.
+ The Russians and Danes, who were planning an invasion of Sweden
by the Sound.
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