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590 REFUTATION OF FALSE REPORTS. [Doċ. 270.
to come by, and seeing him in that condition, brought him
home to Mr. Brockmer covered over with mud. Mr. Brockmer
told him, he had got a lodging for him near Dr. Smith, and
asked him if he would go there? He replied, Yes. When he
arrived he desired that a tub with water and six towels might
be brought to him. Then he went into the back room and
locked himself in. Mr. Brockmer being apprehensive that he
might hurt himself, had the lock taken off. They found him
washing his feet : he had wetted the six towels, and asked
for six more. Mr. Brockmer then left him with two men.
Dr. Smith visited him every day, and gave him medicines
which did him much good. Mr. Brockmer went to the Swedish
Envoy, and told him what had happened, who thanked him
much for all his trouble.
9. "After that Mr. Brockmer continued to visit him : he
had often expressed his thanks to him for his great care, but
would never give up the point that he was the Messiah ; on
which Mr. Brockmer always declined to dispute.
10. "One day when Dr. Smith had given him a purging
powder, he went out into the field, running as quick as possible.
The man who then attended him, could not overtake him:
the Baron sat down on a stile, and laughed heartily:-when
the man came near him, he ran to another stile, and so on.
This was in the dog-days, and from that time he grew worse.
"Mr. Brockmer had very little conversation with him after
wards, except that he now and then met him in the streets,
and found that he still held to his point."
A part of this account, from nos. 1 to 5, we have reason
to regard as genuine ; since it is confirmed by collateral
testimony. But the rest of the account from paragraphs 6 to
10 is an unmitigated falsehood, as we shall presently prove.
Any one who is at all acquainted with Swedenborg’s
writings, or who is only superficially acquainted with his life
as a scholar, must know, as Mr. Noble observes (Preface to
the second edition of his translation of " Heaven and Hell,"
p. xxviii,) that Swedenborg, in the interval between 1743 and
1745, " not only showed no symptoms of delirium, or derange
ment, but continued his wonted course of philosophical study
and publication ; for the first two parts of his Regnum Animale
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