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338 SWEDENBORG’S CORRESPONDENCE. [Doc. 101.
upon my return, to ask the College for another leave of
absence for taking a journey; were I to tell them the reason,
they might answer, that I could very well dispense with it.
Moreover, several connected with the College will depart on a
commission in a few days, which will increase my difficulties.
Meanwhile I congratulate you; I should like very much in
your next to learn the point of the strife (materiam litis),
that still remains.
I should like to see the sharp answer of my antagonists;
but words will not rouse me, and I will not make any reply
to them , as I have stated in what has been printed; for this
would be a most ignoble contest, between one with a mask and
another without one ; probably it is some low, vituperative person,
which I infer from his laying the greatest stress upon mere
words, and from his not seeming to have any understanding
at all of the matter itself; inasmuch as he supposes my mean
ing to be, that whole mountains had been removed, and is
not at all aware that in Sweden large stones are found in
the middle of flat fields, and also that many ridges and
mountains in Sweden consist entirely of piles of stones. In
order to please the learned in Sweden I shall, therefore, at
once make a clear proposition of given dates, introduce ex
periments from hydrostatics and hydraulics, apply geometry
to them , and thus arrive at a clear conclusion, without even
mentioning this low character, who seeks his glory in involv
ing another in a dispute in a mean manner; out of which no
honour can accrue, inasmuch as while he is unknown, the other
is well-known. This demonstration I will afterwards send to
Polhem , the Councillor ofCommerce, and after he has expressed
his opinion upon it, you might send a copy to Wolf18 at
Halle, and Julius in Leipzig. I presume that you and other
learned men will be pleased and satisfied with the judgment
of these gentlemen ; and this will be sufficient.
By brother Anton Swab 66 I send you my collections on
sulphur, vitriol, alum, common salt, saltpetre, and the acids ;t
but these collections are not yet set up with any care, and
* Compare Document 98.
+ See Note to Document 100, p. 336.
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