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944 [Doc. 313.
SWEDENBORG’S WRITINGS.
In this work also, (which, in the form in which it has been
preserved to us, was not intended by the author for the press,) there
are sundry allusions to spiritual experiences which Swedenborg made
during its composition. These are collected in Note 164, no. viii.
The allusions to this work in the "Private Diary for 1744" (Docu
ment 209) are contained in the same Note in no. ix.
1744 and 1745. (77.) REGNUM ANIMALE anatomice, physice,
et philosophice perlustratum; cujus Pars III de Cute, Sensu
Tactus, et Gustus ; et de Formis Organicis in Genere agit
(The Animal Kingdom, considered anatomically, physically,
and philosophically. Part III. The Skin, the Senses of
Touch and Taste, and Organic Forms generally) . London,
1745, (the publisher’s name is not mentioned), pp. 169, 4to.
Concerning the elaboration of this Part of the Regnum Animale,
which was never finished by the author, we read in the "Private
Diary of 1744," (Document 209, no. 162), under date of August 1,
as follows : "This signifies that I was led to my work on the senses,
which I began writing [i. e. preparing for the press] to-day ; and
that I did not wish to be drawn away thereby from that which is
more important." And in no. 163, on the same day, we read : "This
signifies the work upon which I have now entered ; the last was
about the brain."
In note 164, no. ix, the progress which the author made in this
work, is described by quotations from Document 209. From the
same Document we alse learn that on October 27, he ceased to work
on the Regnum Animale, and entered on the preparation of his work
on "The Worship and Love of God," (no. 78). See Document 209,
no. 202.
The contents of Part III of the Regnum Animale, as far as
published by the author, are as follows.
"Part III. Prologue.
1. The skin and the sense of touch.
2. Organic forms generally.
3. The sense and sensorium of touch specifically.
4. The use of touch.
5. The sense of taste."
This part of the Regnum Animale was also translated into English
by Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson, and published by him, together with
Part II, as Vol. II of the English edition of this work.
If now we take a retrospect of all that has been thus far advanced
concerning the genesis of the author’s work on the Regnum Animale,
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