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528 SWEDENBORG IN THE HOUSE OF NOBLES. [Doc. 188.
government is not only good, but is even the best of all. I
excuse, however, all those who by nature are inclined to find
fault with every thing which they see and hear : as they can
not do otherwise than follow their own nature and bent, accord
ing to the proverb, that every bird sings according as its bill
is formed .
EM. SWEDENBORG ,
[Stockholm , February 16, 1761.]
[Addressed by Swedenborg to the Speakers of the Houses
of the Clergy, of Burghers, and of Peasants.]
DOCUMENT 188.
SECOND LETTER OF EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
TO NORDENCRANTZ,
THE COUNCILLOR OF COMMERCE.*
As I had the honour of communicating to you some
passages from your book with remarks thereon, I am
I
under the necessity of informing you that I have corroborated
these remarks by some extracts, and have made them public
simply for the purpose of showing that the nine points in
my remarks are correctly made. I was obliged to do this, in
order to avoid the imputation of having produced false charges.
They are mere extracts without any addition ; and as they
fill ten sheets in large handwriting, I am unable to com
municate them to you on account of the sheer trouble of
transcribing them : still I have no doubt that you will be able
to examine them in the hands of some one else.
I am surprised to find from the memorial which you have
handed in, in reply to mine of Jan. 12, that you apply all
that was written therein to yourself, when yet it was for
* The original draught of this letter, of which the above is a translation,
is preserved on leaf 50 of Swedenborg’s " Riksdagsskrifter " in the Library
of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm .
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