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DOCUMENT 127.
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF E. BENZELIUS
TO HIS SON CHARLES JESPER BENZELIUS°
IN STOCKHOLM . *
Visit your uncle Emanuel Swedenborg as often
as possible, but at such hours as he may himself appoint; for
he is not always at leisure, and is most economical with
his time.
Linköping, October 25, 1740.
DOCUMENT 128.
SWEDENBORG TO -7
Most honoured Sir,
I had the honour to receive from you another
letter, from which I saw that you were pleased with medi
tating upon the causes of the change of colour in metals. As
I am always willing to furnish whatever may serve this object,
I appeal therefore to my former [letter], especially as this
depends chiefly upon the experiments themselves, and upon all
the circumstances by which they are necessarily attended, all
of which must be taken into consideration, before a statement
can be made about their cause . For in order that anything
may be judged a posteriori, and a priori, such data must be
given, as may enable one in the end to arrive at the cause;
* This letter is contained in the Correspondence of Doctor Carl Jesper
Benzelius,99 professor at Lund, which is preserved in the Cathedral-library
at Linköping
of " Bergius’ Collection ," in Stockholm Vol. XIV, p. 299.
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