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(Doc. 77.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE.
suggestion would be, that I might be with you, and enjoy one
or two years’ leisure to put my thoughts on paper, which I
have some difficulty in doing now: but I will certainly never
apply to the Consistory and the Rector in writing, for,
did they not accede to my application, I should be under
the disadvantage of having sought to be relieved of an
honourable post, from which I shall in time derive more
profit, than simply the promise of being allowed to enjoy it
to the end of my life; moreover, I should be under the disad
vantage of having declared myself unfit for my present position.
Should the Academy consider me qualified for their position,
they may take all necessary steps without my application ; but
if they do not consider me qualified, I am indifferent about it.
I thank you a thousand times for your well intended kindness ;
I shall never be happier than in being near you, so as to have
more frequently the opportunity of doing what is pleasant
to you.
As to your having thought it advisable to delay for a
while the publication of the new method of reckoning, for the
reasons you have named, I did not at first comprehend your
meaning, and it was certainly some discouragement to me in
a matter I had in hand, to find that my mathematical
discoveries were considered as novelties which the country
could not stand. I wish I had some more of these novel
ties, aye, a novelty in literary matters for every day in
the year, so that the world might find pleasure in them .
There are enough in one century who plod on in the old
beaten track, while there are scarcely six or ten in a whole
century, who are able to generate novelties which are based
upon argument and reason . But I afterwards perceived that
you meant those matters concerning the revolution in coinage
and currency. That is a different thing. Still, I know that
I have not proposed anything that can occasion the slight
est inconvenience to the country. The only thing I have
I
pushed is the scheme for the salt-work, which I maintain
would be more useful to the country than any other pro
position in the world, and which is more feasible than is
generally supposed, as may be seen from what follows. 1. There
are above thirty salt-pans in Strömstad which have been in use
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