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PREFACE. XXI
base their charge of insanity; this is done in Document 270.
Yet we did not limit ourselves to the exposure of this parti
cular instance, but in Note 308 we extended our critical
examination to the whole of Mr. White’s " Life of Swedenborg"
for 1867. Justice sometimes is slow; but we believe that
justice has at last been done to Mr. White’s work, and that
it will no longer be able to do any harm to the Lord’s Church
on earth.
Much pains has been taken in bringing together all the
documents which have a bearing on "Swedenborg’s Controversy
with the Consistory of Gottenburg." Thirty distinct documents
were found to belong to this question. In the historical order
in which these documents are presented in Document 245,
with the aid of Dr. Kahl’s history of this case in his Nya
Kyrkan, &c., Part I -they throw much light on the latter
years of Swedenborg’s life. This document extends from
pp. 282-386.
Swedenborg’s interesting intercourse with John Christian
Cuno in Amsterdam, is now for the first time brought in its
totality before the English reader in Document 256, pp. 441 –
485 ; and Prelate Etinger’s singular relations to Swedenborg
are for the first time exhibited clearly to the English reader
in Document 314 in the "Appendix," from pp. 1027-1058 ;
and likewise in Documents 231 and 233.
The readers of Swedenborg will welcome the first complete
translation of the record of his Travels. It embraces Docu
ments 204-207, and occupies pp. 1-133. Many ex
planatory footnotes were required to make a description of
towns and places, as they existed one hundred and thirty
years ago, fully intelligible at the present day.
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