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916 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
Chap. I. The Motion of the Brain; shewing that its Animation
is coincident with the Respiration of the Lungs.
Chap. II. The Cortical Substance of the Brain specifically.
Chap. III. The Human Soul.
On the first page of Codex 88, Swedenborg declares that "he
finished writing his work in Amsterdam on December 27, 1739, at
the stroke of twelve," (see Vol. III of the Photo-lithographed
Swedenborg MSS., p. 141). He hesitated at first very much as to
the title he should give to it, and what parts to introduce first, and
he wrote out, in fact, six different titles for his book, which are
reproduced in Vol. VI of the Swedenborg MSS., pp. 355 to 358.
The first title is as follows : Regnum Animale tam physicum
quam psychologicum, seu Systema principiorum et phænomenorum
naturalium de utraque parte Hominis, hoc est de Anima et Corpore
et utriusque causis et effectibus, actionibus, et passionibus, &c., et
simul de Mundo elementari, in quo vivitur; tam ex principiis quam
ab experimentis, philosophice, mechanice, physice, chymice, et ana
tomice exploratum et demonstratum (The Animal Kingdom, the
physical as well as the psychological, or a System of the natural
principles and phenomena exhibited in both parts of man, viz. in his
Soul and Body, and in the causes, effects, actions, and passions of
both, as well as in the elementary World, their abiding place ; explored
and demonstrated philosophically, mechanically, physically, chemically,
and anatomically, both from principles and experiments). As a
motto he suggests the two following Latin verses :
O quam multa diu, quæ patuere, latent!
(Oh, how long are many things hidden, which have lain open to our
gaze!)
O quam multa, diu quæ latuere, patent!
(Oh, how many things, which have lain hidden for a long time, are
now exposed to our gaze!)
The reader will notice that in this title the author places the
soul first, and the body afterwards ; and also that in specifying the
means by which he intends to explore and demonstrate his subject,
he places philosophically first, and physically afterwards. In the
second title, which is otherwise identical with the first, he inverts
this order and places the body before the soul, and the means
of exploration and demonstration he arranges as follows: physice,
chymice, anatomice, mechanice, et philosophice (physically, chemically,
From this it follows that he must have entered upon its preparation
ome time in 1738.
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