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318 [Doc. 89.
SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE..
in town will take the subject into consideration, and all
express themselves favourably ; yet I shall not get any ex
pression from them until Bromell also has had it (under con
sideration )
. They intend to establish here a Collegium Curi
]
osum, of, which they wish me to become a member, but I
beg them not merely to talk about it, but to set it actually
to work.
If it be possible to have my two papers, of which I spoke
in my last, translated into good Latin, I should like very
much to have it done. I remain
Your most obedient servant,
En. S.
Stockholm (about the middle of January, 1720].
DOCUMENT 89.
SWEDENBORG TO BENZELIUS.*
Most honoured and dear brother,
I have received one of your letters, but the
other, which was enclosed in Doctor Rudbeck’s,49 has, it seems,
been mislaid in the post-office. I break off my article now , and
send Chapter XIII, + else there will be a squabble about the
proper meaning. It would be very desirable if, in the objections
that may be raised, respect were had to such things as would
contribute to set this matter in its proper light for me ; I mean,
that such objections should be raised, by which I might in a
certain measure see whether I am on the right or on a wrong
track ; but merely to imagine many things about the animal
spirits, and to admit only such things as have reference to
their chemistry and their function, and none that concern their
geometry, seems too weak a defence : for I lay it down as a
principle, that the tremulation begins in the liquid, or in the
* “ Benzelius’ Collection," Vol. XL, No. 143.
+ See footnote to Document 85.
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