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516 SWEDENBORG IN THE HOUSE OF NOBLES. [Doc. 181.
The whole of what follows is taken from the MSS. that
were left by Swedenborg. The title of Swedenborg’s paper
is as follows:]
SHORT EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK OF NORDENCRANTZ ,133 THE COUNCILLOR
OF COMMERCE, WITH REMARKS UPON THE SAME . *
I. With respect to the first point, that all state offices high
as well as low, except the ecclesiastical and military, should be
changed every second or third year, every one may reflect
1. how the Swedish country would look if all state officers, viz.
Senators, Presidents, Councillors in the Supreme Court, in
the Departments of Chancery, War, Exchequer, Mining, and
Commerce, all Assessors and provincial Governors, superior
and district Judges, Mayors and Council-men, etc., should hence
forth, after every second year, be dismissed, and new ones
appointed in their place for two or three years. How should
the new officers be obtained ? What should their qualifications
be ? 2. What should those who have been dismissed do
to feed themselves, their wives, and children ? and would
not the greater part of them be obliged to go about beg
ging? 3. Does not every office require its own knowledge
and experience, which are acquired and increased throughout
a whole life-time ? What great acts of injustice and what con
fusion would arise, simply from the ignorance and inexperience
* The Swedish original of this paper under the title : "Kort utdrag utaf
Commercie Rådet Herr Nordencrants Bok ," & c., fills five pages on leaves
33 to 35 in the volume of “ Riksdagsskrifter " among the Swedenborg MSS.
in the Library of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. It was printed
by Dr. Kabl ’n his “Nya Kyrkan," &c., part II, pp. 56 to 63.
This paper was adverted to by Count A. J. von Höpken in his first
letter to General Tuxen, in the following words: “The most solid memorials,
and the best penned, at the Diet of 1761, on matters of finance, were
presented by him (Swedenborg). In one of these he refuted a large work
in quarto on the same subject, quoted all the corresponding passages of it,
and all this in less than one sheet."
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