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Doc. 182.] 521
SWEDENBORG T() NORDENCRANTZ.
[To this the author of “ Nya Kyrkan,” etc., makes the fol
lowing addition, “The preceding remarks with a few others
of less importance, which we have passed over, Swedenborg
made against Nordencrantz’s book ; he communicated them
to the gentleman himself, had them introduced into the proto
col of the House of Nobles, and announced to a full session
( till plena) of each of the four Houses.]
DOCUMENT 182.
FIRST LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO NORDENCRANTZ, 133 COUNCILLOR
OF COMMERCE.
( ENCLOSING A COPY OF THE FOREGOING REJARKS.)*
I have the honour of communicating to you a few remarks
on your book, upon which you have expended a good deal of
thought, and I hope you will not regard with disfavour my
having made and communicated them to you ; but our form of
government and our freedom are dear to me. You will not find
any cause to retort in strong terms upon my remarks, as
have gone the mild and not the hard way, and have not em
ployed harsh terms in exposing what has been written against
our established form of government for the purpose of upset
ting its chief fundamental pillar, where besides detracting
language has been used of everything else : nor in exposing
what has been said about an arbitrary monarchy, and other
matters. Moreover, I do not intend to pursue the hard way,
unless you should express yourself in too strong terms respecto
ing my remarks—which I do not anticipate. As to the
* A Swedish copy of this letter is contained in Vol. XVI, p. 311 ofthe
“ Bergius Collection of Letters," &c. in the Library of the Royal Academy
of Sciences in Stockholm.
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