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628 [Doc. 273.
THREE EXTRAORDINARY FACTS.
Kant relates here the story of the lost receipt, and of the
conflagration in Stockholm, as he himself had been told it by
his friend Green, and as it will be found in Documents 273
and 274 ; and concludes his letter thus :
"What can be brought forward against the authenticity of
this occurrence [the conflagration in Stockholm] ? My friend
who wrote this to me has examined all, not only in Stock
holm, but also, about two months ago, in Gottenburg, where
he is well acquainted with the most respectable houses,
and where he could obtain the most authentic and complete
information, for, as only a very short time has elapsed since
1759,* most of the inhabitants are still alive who were eye
witnesses of this occurrence. "
am, with profound reverence, &c. , &c.
"Königsberg, August 10, 1768.+"
"EMANUEL KANT.
DOCUMENT 273.
THE CONFLAGRATION IN STOCKHOLM.
A.
KANT’S242 ACCOUNT.‡
"The following occurrence appears to me to have the
greatest weight of proof, and to place the assertion respecting
Swedenborg’s extraordinary gift beyond all possibility of doubt.
* The German original has 1756 ; see Document 271, A.
TheGerman original has 1758; see Introduction to the present Document.
Extracted from Kant’s letter to Charlotte von Knobloch, first printed
in Borowsky’s "Darstellung des Lebens und Characters Immanuel Kant’s,"
revised and corrected by Kant himself, Königsberg, 1804, pp. 211 to 225.
The first English translation of that letter was printed in the "Intellectual
Repository" for 1830, p. 53, to which, according to Mr. Noble, it was
furnished by the Rev. J. H. Smithson.
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