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1252 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
See Note 240.
NOTE 271.
J. BERZELIUS.
Jacob Berzelius, the father of modern chemistry, was secretary
to the Academy of Sciences from 1818 till the time of his death
in 1848. In this capacity he wrote a report on the condition of
the Swedenborg MSS. in 1841 (see Document 308, p. 801), and he
was instrumental in having those of the "Missing Manuscripts," which
are discussed in Document 309, and which had found their way to
England, restored to the Academy. Several of his letters are con
tained in the said Documents, viz., on pp. 818, 824, 828, and 830.
Berzelius was born in 1779, and died in 1848. Being an un
prejudiced and high-minded man of science, he was able to appre
ciate Swedenborg’s science. The judgment which he bore in respect
to Swedenborg’s little work entitled "Om Watnens Högd," &c., is
contained in Document 313, p. 896. On his Regnum Animale he
expressed himself in a letter to Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson, the
English translator of the work, as follows : "I have gone through
some parts of "The Animal Kingdom,’ which have interested me
especially; and I have been surprised to find how the mind of
Swedenborg has preceded the present state of knowledge, writing his
work at the time he did. I hope the anatomists and physiologists
of our day will profit by this work, both for the sake of extending
their ideas, and of rendering justice to the genius of Swedenborg."
In another letter he says, "I am surprised at the great knowledge
displayed by Swedenborg in a subject that a professed metallurgist
would not have been supposed to have made an object of study,
and in which, as in all he undertook, he was in advance of his age."
NOTE 272.
MANOAH SIBLY.
NOTE 273.
REV. J. PROUD.
The Rev. Jos. Proud, one of the early ministers of the New Church,
appears in the "Swedenborg Documents" as the owner at one time
of the original MS. of the Diarium Minus (see Document 309, p. 812).
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