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Doc. 515
. 181.] REVIEW OF NORDENCRANTZSBOOK.
and that from the egg which is supposed to contain a bird
of paradise, there is hatched a basilisk.
Your most obedient servant,
EMAN. SWEDENBORG.
[ January 12, 1761.)
DOCUMENT 181.
REVIEW OF NORDENCRANTZ’S BOOK.
[On the subject of Nordencrantz’s book, the author of “ Nya
Kyrkan,” etc. part II, p. 56, writes as follows: " The reason
why Swedenborg mentioned the name of Nordencrantz,183
the Councillor of Commerce, in his memorial of January 12,
was, that that gentleman, who was one of those in the country
who were dissatisfied with the manner in which the govern
ment was carried on, had published a special work, which
had been submitted by him to each of the four Houses
at one of their full meetings. In this work he had sounded
a fearful alarm about the condition of the country, and made
charges in general against judges, senators, and civil officers,
and also proposed several radical changes which seemed
necessary to him in the form of government.
of these inculpations and of the proposals for improving the
form of government, Swedenborg collected for the purpose of
refuting them, in the following nine points, where what is
printed in Italics is extracted from Nordencrantz’s book, and
the rest contains Swedenborg’s refutation .”
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