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630 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
ing his stay in Manchester was such as no New Churchman could
overlook .” A. Nordensköld’s brother, C. F. Nordensköld, says
concerning him in his autobiography, contained in his work “Con
sidérations Générales sur le Christianisme," etc., ( p. 286) without,
however’ mentioning his brother’s name: “He associated with persons
without morality, and did not practise conscientiously that religion
which he professed ; whence he lost the interior discernment of what
is good and true.” Can a man who receives such a character from
his own brother, be trusted in pronouncing as to the moral character
of Emanuel Swedenborg ? So long, therefore, as the correctness of
the translation of Augustus Nordensköld cannot be tested by a
comparison with the Danish original of General Tuxen - so long,
consequently, as a man “whose unchaste conduct cannot be overlooked
by any New Churchman ," and whose own brother testifies concerning
him that “he had lost the interior discernment of what is good and
true," - 80 long as such a man is the only authority for declaring
that " Swedenborg had a mistress in his youth in Italy," we consider
ourselves fully justified in rejecting his testimony, even if it did not
contain in itself a flat contradiction. ( For further particulars respect
ing the character of A. Nordensköld, and his notions about wives
and mistresses, see Note 35.)
NOTE 28.
COUNT ANDERS JOHAN VON HÖPKEN .
Count Anders Johan von Höpken, from whom proceeds No. 53 in
Document 5, was the son of the President of the College of
Commerce, Baron von Höpken, who descended originally from an
English family called Hopking, which had emigrated to Germany,
and thence to Sweden. He was born in 1712, and died in Stock
holm in 1789. After having received a careful education, he tra
velled abroad in 1730, and during his journey in France became
a member of the Académie des Belles Lettres of Marseilles. On his
return home in 1734, he at once took an active part in the political
affairs of Sweden, and became a member of the Swedish Diet in
1738 when he was but twenty -six years old. At the same time he
took a great interest in everything pertaining to science and
literature, and he proposed, in 1739, in connection with Linnæus and
others, the plan of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which was
instituted in the same year, and of which he was made the first
secretary. In 1741, he became a secretary in the Department of the
Exterior; in 1746, marshal of the court, and soon after in the same
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