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DOCUMENT 184.
REPLY OF NORDENCRANTZ ,183 THE COUNCILLOR
OF COMMERCE, TO SWEDENBORG’S
FIRST LETTER.*
I should be wanting in the esteem which I owe to so worthy
and learned a man, if I left unanswered the letter with which
you honoured me on the 31st of last month, and which con
tained some remarks on the work which has been distributed
among the Honourable Houses of the Diet. Still with regard to
its contents I have no other reply to make than this, that
although both of us seem to have the same end in view, viz.
to seek the truth, and to be of use to our country, we may
yet err in respect to the ways and means, wherefore you are
quite at liberty to expose my errors in public, either by the
press or by memorials communicated to the Honourable Houses
of the Diet. Again, it is not in my power, nor, if it was, is
it my wish, for the sake of enlightening those whom it con
cerns, to deny to you either one or both of these ways ; but,
on the contrary, as you have sent me your remarks, which was
scarcely necessary, I challenge you to do the same for the
sake of truth and of light. I myself will furnish you an
occasion of choosing the way through the Houses of the
Diet, by an answer to a memorial written against me
some time ago, and which was submitted to the Houses
of the Diet while I was unwell, and of which I received
notice only a few days ago. As you are animated by such a
praiseworthy zeal to enlighten our fellow -citizens with respect
* A copy of the Swedish original of this letter is in the “ Bergius Col
lection of Letters,” & c. Vol. XVI, p. 312, in the Library of the Academy of
Sciences in Stockholm.
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