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Doc. 313.] 917
CHRONOLOGICAL ACCOUNT.
anatomically, mechanically, and philosophically) ; in the second title
he expresses himself in favour of the following form of his motto :
Usque, diu quæ latuere, patent.
(
What has long lain concealed, nevertheless now is exposed to our
gaze.)
There is more implied in the inversion of terms in these two
titles, than appears at first sight : for it means nothing less than
that the synthetic treatment which descends from the soul to the
body, and from philosophy to the concrete facts of science, is to be
abandoned, and the analytical method, which ascends from the body
to the soul, and from effects to causes, to be substituted in its place.
The second title, which was crossed out by the author, was replaced
by the third, which is as follows: Deo Auspice.- Transactiones de
Economia Animali de utraque parte hominis, heic de cerebro, cere
bello, medulla oblongata et spinali, et de nervis, anatomice, physice,
et psychologice demonstrata (Under the auspices of God.- Transactions
on the Animal Economy of both parts of man, here concerning the
larger and lesser brain, the prolonged and spinal marrow, and the
nerves demonstrated anatomically, physically, and psychologically).
We see here that although Swedenborg had already resolved to
treat his subjects henceforth analytically, he nevertheless still persists
in treating of the inmost organs of man first, and thus in moving
from the centre to the circumference.
The fourth title is an emendation of the third, and reads as
follows: Economia Animalis de utraque parte hominis in transactiones
divisa; heic de cerebro, cerebello, medullis oblongata et spinali, deque
nervis, anatomice, physice, et philosophice perquisita; quibus Patho
logia capitis et nervorum subnectitur ab Aphaneide (The Animal
Economy of both parts of man, divided into Transactions ; of which
the present treats of the larger and lesser brain, the prolonged and
spinal marrow, and the nerves ; investigated anatomically, physically,
and philosophically; and to which is added the pathology of the
head and the nerves, by one who desires to remain unknown).
The fourth title was crossed out by Swedenborg, and he was at
first tempted to call his work again : Regnum Animale, secundum
suos gradus et series; yet this also was crossed out, and he originated
instead the following fifth title: Economia Regni Animalis in
transactiones divisa, quarum hæc prima de corde, arteriis, venis,
sanguine agit, anatomice, physice, et philosophice perlustrata (The
Economy of the Animal Kingdom, divided into transactions, of
which the first treats of the heart, the arteries, the veins, the
blood ; considered anatomically, physically, and philosophically). Here
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