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DOCUMENT 193.
STATEMENT TO BE INSERTED IN THE MINUTES
OF THE HOUSE OF NOBLES.*
[Nordencrantz, the Councillor of Commerce, seems to have
answered the strictures upon his book that had been submitt
ed to the Houses of the Diet by Swedenborg, whose rejoinder
to Nordencrantz’s memorial is as follows:
I have only done what has been done by the Councillor
of Commerce himself; he announced his book “ till plena ” in
the four Houses, and afterwards published it. I made excerpts
from it and commented upon them, and extracts to serve as
proofs; these I announced " till plena ” in the four Houses,
and afterwards made them public. The difference is simply
that the one is printed, and the other is written. Moreover,
I have communicated them myself to the Councillor of Com
merce, and informed him of what I have done ; and as the
book is printed and distributed, every man , and especially
every member of the Diet, is at liberty and consequently I
myself am at liberty, to do what I have done. Besides, I have
not charged the Councillor of Commerce with having written
against the " fundamental laws," as he calls them , nor with
having endeavoured either by open or secret machinations to
introduce, assist, or promote a different form of goverment
from that which has been established by the estates of the
realm, according to the words of our law , chapter on crimes
IV, § 8. May God preserve him, and me, and all from this !
But I have in a becoming manner extracted from the book
whatever in it concerns our Swedish government, and I have
commented upon it; more I do not intend to do ; for then I
should dispute what is clear without dispute,
[Em. SWEDENBORG.]
* Ten original copies of this document in Swedenborg’s handwriting
are preserved on leaves 36 to 45 of his “ Riksdagsskrifter," in the Library of
the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm , under the heading “ Till protocollet.”
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