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Dcc. 78.] 297
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.
me to enable us more thoroughly to investigate the nature of
air and water in all its parts: for if the true shape of the
particles is once discovered, we obtain with it all the pro
perties which belong to such a shape. I hope that this
rests on a solid foundation. In future I should not like to
publish anything which has not better ground to rest upon
than the former things in the Dedalus. I should like this
to appear separately, although likewise in quarto. The papers
of Polhem, the Councillor of Commerce, and the articles on
mechanics, I will leave for the Dedalus.
With respect to the professorship at Upsal I expressed my
Ι
thoughts to you from Brunsbo, and I hope you will kindly
receive them . I hope I shall be able to be as useful in the
post which has been entrusted to me, and also to secure to
myself as many advantages; my present position being only a
step to a higher one, while at Upsal I should have nothing
more to expect; moreover, I do not believe that the King
would like me to give up my present position. With regard
to the College, I will try most diligently to make myself
at home in mechanics, physics, and chemistry, and, at all
events, to lay a proper foundation for everything, when
I hope no one will have any longer a desire to charge me
with having entered the College as one entirely unworthy; still
I have no desire, either, to be called legis consultissimus [i
. e.
the one most versed in the law).
The new method of calculation I intend for the learned ;
and I hope you will order it to be printed. I take all re
sponsibility upon myself, and assure you that nothing of this
kind will be prohibited. The King has full power in every
.
thing that concerns law, war, and taxes, but none whatever in
what concerns words, language, and calculation. We have
great cause to be wearied with all the “ innovations” that
happen. Would to God that no innovations had taken place
with our currency, but only with the method of reckoning
it-then our country would have been better off. Good Lord!
what extraordinary regulations have been issued with regard
to the skjuts [i. e. the relays furnished by the Swedish peasants) ;
the like of it has never been heard of. If this had not
been done with a view to encourage the regular posting
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