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Doc. 206.] 91
SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1736.
the poor except words and blessings, and, on the other hand,
insist on having everything from the indigent for nothing. Of
what possible use are these Franciscan monks ? Others again
are slim, lean, supple; they prefer walking to riding on horse
back or in a carriage ; they are willing that others should en
joy themselves with them, are witty and quick at repartee, &c.
September 2. From Roye I came to Pont [ St. Maxence] ,
which is a borough (bourg) where there is a bridge across a
tributary of the Seine, [ the Oise.] The river Seine makes four
bends, and Paris lies in their midst.
September 3. From Pont [ de Maxence] I went by way
of Senlis to Paris, where I arrived at six o’clock in the even
ing, and took lodgings at the Hotel d’Hamburg.
September 4. I took a view of Paris on the left side of
the Seine, or of the Faubourg St. Germain. I was in the
church of Notre Dame, in the garden of the Luxembourg,
and in the theatre, which seems to be developed in Paris to
the greatest height it will probably ever reach.
September 5. I was in the Tuileries and the Louvre. In
the Tuileries I examined all its splendours ; I saw also the
large marble statues, which were far away in the park leading
to Versailles. Afterwards I visited the Hotel Royal des In
valides, which is a palace of wonderful structure ; the hand
some church is the most interesting object there ; I saw like
wise the many expensive palaces on the way leading to it.
September 6. I made the first draught of the introduction
to the Transactions (ingressum ad transactiones), viz. that the
soul of wisdom is the knowledge and acknowledgment of the
Supreme Being.*
September 7. I was in the palace, and saw all the shops,
likewise the bookshops. I was likewise in the Sainte Chapelle
and in the Hotel de Ville. In the first transaction I treated
on the subject that "now is the time to explore nature from
its effects."+
September 8. I visited a little church, called Larmes de
Chaux, near the garden of the Luxembourg; and likewise all
* See Economia Regni Animalis, first transaction, no. 19.
Ibid. no. 26.
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