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PREFACE. XIX
1875. "Emanuel Swedenborg" by A. Fryxell in Volume XLIII
of his "Berättelser ur Svenska Historien" (Tales from
Swedish History), Stockholm, 8vo, pp. 120. An exposure
of the nature of this work will be found in Note 254.
1876. " Emanuel Swedenborg : Notice Biographique. Par un
Ami de la Nouvelle Église. " 8vo. Paris.
1877. "Emanuel Swedenborg, the Spiritual Columbus, " a
sketch. By U. S. E., London, foolscap 8vo., pp . 216.
Two editions of this popular work have been issued
within a short time, and a third is, we understand,
preparing.
The position which the present work occupies in the bio
graphical literature of Swedenborg is this. It contains not only
all documents which had been previously published in the
documentary sources, and also in some of the biographies
enumerated above, but whenever it was necessary, and possible,
they have also been translated anew from the original sources.
A general résumé of our own documentary additions is con
tained in the preface to Volume I.
Volume II has attained to its present size chiefly from
the account of the published and unpublished writings of
Swedenborg in Section XII. Our aim has been in it to give
a minute and definite description of every line that Sweden
borg wrote during his life, which has been handed down to
our times, and also to determine the place which it occupies
in Swedenborg’s life. The " Chronological Account of Sweden
borg’s published and unpublished Writings," which constitutes
Document 313, and which extends from p. 884 to p. 1023,
will accordingly be found to contain the elements of a history
of the internal development of Swedenborg’s mind, which after
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