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MR. WHITE. 1287
imputes to Swedenborg, we shall the mistranslations, point out,
unfounded assertions, and inaccuracies contained in Mr. White’s "Life
of Swedenborg" of 1867 ; and, finally, we shall furnish some historical
facts which throw light on the contradictory and hostile attitude
which Mr. White has occupied since their occurrence in respect to
Swedenborg.
I.
CONTRADICTIONS BETWEEN MR. WHITE IN 1856 AND
MR. WHITE IN 1867.
Mr. White in 1856.
(a) ON BISHOP
"The character of Bishop Swed
berg stood high in Sweden. Simple,
patriotic, and honest, he was,
without being brilliant, a learned
and industrious man" (p. 2).
"The annals of science do not
furnish an instance of any one
who surpassed Swedenborg in that
humility of spirit, and that simple
desire for truth, which is the
(
b) ON SWEDENBORG’S CHARACTER.
"Swedenborg dedicated his first
literary production to his father,
in a prelude full of veneration and
love. Its length alone prevents
our gratifying the reader with the
perusal of this beautiful tribute
of filial affection. Among many
virtues, it should not be accounted
the least, that Swedenborg was a
loving, dutiful son (p. 3).
Mr. White in 1867.
SWEDBERG.
"The Bishop was a man spiritual
and worldly, liberal and intolerant,
generous and grasping, lively and
serious, and in all things restless
and aggressive. . . . . His frank
ness was not sincerity so much
as ignorance of the effect of his
words. Dulness of this sort is a
qualification for a certain order
of worldly success" (I, pp. 112,
113).
"He was a man with a small
heart under the government of a
large head . . . . It is therefore
without surprise, that I discover
no friendships in Swedenborg’s
life. His most intimate inter
course appears to have been with
his brother-in-law, Archbishop
Benzelius, and that never went
deeper than a mild intellectual
regard (I, p. 183).
"Reticent and cautious was
Swedenborg. He wanted none of
his father’s assurance ; but bred
in a better school his tongue did
not wag so freely ... One of the
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