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Doc. 276.] 681
ATTEMPTS AT EXPLANATION.
edited by Messrs. Gedicke and Biester. You are well aware
that I am neither a visionary, nor subject to prejudices;
but I love the truth too well to subscribe to the falsities
of the so-called philosophers. We have a Supreme Being
who is undefinable ; how then can we feeble mortals dare
to define the undefinable? Is that philosophy? No, it is
silliness. All is possible to this Supreme Being; but His
undefinable goodness also assures us that everything that
happens is for our real good, even though we are not
always able to divine it. On this goodness I rest ; it impels
us to love one other with brotherly affection. Judge, my
dear Sir, how sweet this law is, when it is applied to
yourself," &c., &c.
II.
LETTER BY THE COUNTESS VON SCHWERIN.249
"You will pardon my not having been able to acquit my
self at an earlier period of the commission with which you
charged me in respect to the singular occurrence between my
late sister and the famous Swedenborg. As my niece was
absent from her home, she was delayed in sending her answer,
which contains her recollections of that story. As she was,
however, very young at that time, I would not trust her me
mory alone in order to furnish to you a truthful account.
"By dint of much inquiry I have at last unearthed the secre
tary of the embassy, who was then at the house of my late
brother-in-law, and who was an eye-witness, since he con
tinued to stay at my sister’s house for some time, in order
to take charge of the affairs of the United Provinces. Besides,
this gentleman had been very intimate with Swedenborg. He
sent me the following account which agrees completely with
that communicated to me by my niece:
"M. de Matevell [Marteville], envoy extraordinary of the
United Provinces at the Court of Sweden, died in Stockholm
in the month of April, 1760. Some time afterwards his widow
was called upon by a silversmith to pay for a silver service
She was astonished at this demand, in view of her husband’s
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