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Doc. 256.] CUNO’S ESTIMATE OF SWEDENBORG. 477
of one of the most singular men that have ever lived, and on
account of its strange contents also is worthy of preservation."
The paper in question is a copy of the concluding paragraph
ofSwedenborg’s little treatise entitled, "The Intercourse between
the Soul and the Body" (no. 20), which we have already quoted
in the Introduction to Document 208, p. 138.* This little
work Swedenborg soon after published in London.
After adding two more paragraphs (nos. 20 and 21 on p. 453),
Cuno sums up his estimate of Swedenborg in the following
words:
D.
CUNO’S ESTIMATE OF SWEDENBORG.†
1. "Dear reader, in all that precedes methinks I have
given you some information deserving to be known. Judge
of it yourself: for to tell you the truth, I do not know at
the present moment what I ought to think of him. I am
quite willing to grant that the honest man is in his second
childhood; but I still believe that whoever desires to make out
that he is insane, commits a sin against him.‡ Let him give
an account of his errors before God. I am not willing to
judge him, so that I may not be judged. My intention in
writing to him was sincere, both in respect to him and in
respect to others who knew him, or who, impelled by sheer
curiosity, may become acquainted with him, in order to see some
thing rare or extraordinary. I, therefore, cannot feel any regret
for having written against him or for having allowed others to
make copies of my letter. As for the rest time must teach what
will be the fate of his manifold writings in the world. I remember
here the words of Gamaliel, in Acts v, 38, 39, ’If this counsel
extract submitted to him some rational considerations, which might enable
him to understand why the Lord had chosen him for this particular work.
* Dr. Scheler, the Editor of the "Aufzeichnungen," &c., adds here in a
footnote, "Swedenborg’s autograph which is here inserted in the MS. imparts
a peculiar value to the four volumes which have cost only six thalers, and
it made me not a little jealous of my friend’s discovery.
See "Aufzeichnungen," &c., pp. 156 to 168.
See on this subject the Rev. T. Hartley in Document 258, no. 29.
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