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Doc. 270.] MATHESIUS’ ACCOUNT OF SWEDENBORG. 591
were printed at the Hague in the year 1744, and the third
part, at London, in 1745 ; as was also in the same year his
De Cultu et Amore Dei. If, then, it even were true that he
had a fever with delirium in 1743, it is obvious that he had
completely recovered from it, when he appeared again as a
laborious writer on profound philosophical subjects, in the
years 1744 and 1745, composed in precisely the same style
and spirit as his Economia Regni Animalis, printed in Holland,
in two parts, in 1740 and 1741."
Again from August, 1745, to July, 1747, we find him engaged
in his official duties at home, as is proved from Documents
165 to 167. It is true he is no longer at the College every
day, because a substitute had been appointed for him during
his absence from the College from 1736 to 1740, and he had
ever since been only on half-pay ; wherefore we frequently
notice his absence from the College after August, 1745 ; yet
we find him but rarely absent on account of illness, and never
on account of a prolonged illness. In the Minutes of the
College of Mines for 1745 he is marked " unwell" five times,
and in 1746 four times ; and in 1747 he is never marked
absent on account of illness. So little, indeed, was he suspected
by his colleagues at the College of Mines of being in the
least mentally non compos in 1747, that they unanimously
recommended him to the King for the councillorship of mines
which had become vacant by the retirement of Bergenstierna
(see Document 166, A) ; and when in June, 1747, he applied
to the King for a release from his office, that "he might finish
the work on which he was then engaged," the King on ac
cepting his resignation used the following language : "Although
we would gladly see him [ Swedenborg] continue at home the
faithful services he has hitherto rendered to us and his coun
try, still we can so much the less oppose his wish, as we feel
sufficiently assured that the above-named work, on which he
is engaged, will in time contribute to the general use and
benefit, no less than the other valuable works written and
published by him have contributed to the use and honour of
his country, as well as of himself. We therefore decree, and
by this open letter, release Emanuel Swedenborg from the
office of Assessor in our and our country’s College of Mines,
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