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520 SWEDENBORG IN THE HOUSE OF NOBLES. [Doc. 181.
ment is made, that they are scarcely of any use to the country;
when yet Sweden owes to them all her motive power in commerce
and every-day life, and derives from them all her revenue and
wealth, and with their products pays for all her importations
from abroad, for the purposes of manufacture, and for clothing
and food. But, perhaps, this allegation is introduced for this
reason, that the iron-works at Schebo have slipped out of the
hands of the Councillor of Commerce.
VIII. That the power of the censor of the press is too
limited in Sweden , and that he ought only to be answerable
to the Houses of the Diet, and ought to rank with the Chan
cellor of the Court: on this subject I cannot make any obser
vation, either in favour or in opposition to it ; inasmuch as
the Houses of the Diet, which are now in session, can them
selves deliberate on this subject, and settle it in such a manner
as may be found most useful to the country.
IX . The first tuo proposals and the fifth seem to furnish
arguments in favour of an absolute monarchy; but that they
do not furnish any arguments in its favour, may be seen from
the preceding answers. I pass over several statements which
have been made in certain places, because they seem to be
disregarded in the book itself.
In conclusion, as the book has been published and circulated
among the Houses of the Diet, and cannot be called in again,
and it is not advisable that it should, it is submitted, whether
free access to it ought not to be permitted to all, in order that
the proposals discussed in it may be opposed in writing, and
that such answers may be freely printed, so that all may appear
in a light which cannot be seen clearly in the book itself, on
account of its prolixity from the many long discourses, ex
tracts from governmental acts, citations from authors and
the digressions to which they give rise, which might cause an
impression with the reader, as if they were profoundly ex
cogitated, wise, and learned.
If a reference be required to the pages of the book where
these nine propositions are sought to be established, such re
ference will be given on demand, as they are all marked .
EM. SWEDENBORG.
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