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MR. WHITE. 1289
Mr. White in 1856.
his writings ; and that his life
was in agreement with his books
we also know. The loveliest
descriptions of female grace and
beauty we have ever met with,
are contained in his works, chiefly
in his treatise on ’Conjugial Love’"
(pp. 25, 18, 1, 6).
(c) ON SWEDENBORG’S
"Swedenborg never treats his
readers to long moralizings, that
can be condensed into one para
graph; but all his writings are
crowded with thought, so that
one is prompted not to conden
sation, but to expansion" (p. 108).
"His long series of scientific
works had gained him a wide
spread reputation, and wherever
he went, he was hailed as a friend
and brother by the thoughtful
and philosophical .... "The worth
ofthese [scientific] books has been
their preservative, and now we
behold their resurrection, and
slow, but certain growth into
growth into
acceptance and fame. Translated
Mr. White in 1867.
Moreover the Italian Mistress is
more credible after the Stock
holm one, even as the chances of
marriagearegreaterwith widowers
than bachelors" (Edition of 1868,
pp. 53, 92).*
WRITINGS GENERALLY.
Concerning Swedenborg’s scien
tific and philosophical writings
White says: "From a literary point
of view these writings merit but
little praise . . . . As a whole they
are diffuse, iterative, and confused
to an oppressive degree" (I, p. 176).
Concerning the theological writ
ings he says, "We can readily
believe from the looseness and
iteration of his style, that he
wrote rapidly .... Swedenborg
is voluminous in the worst sense ;
he is voluminous by repetition.
His mind was orderly, but loose.
He could only be exact at the
expense of prodigious space" (II,
pp. 510, 670).
"To keep writings like his [scien
tific works] before the eye of the
world required persistent personal
activity, and the service of a clique
of admirers as claqueurs .... Had
his [scientific] writings, as they
exist, been published in English
or French it is not likely that
they would have had any very
great success . ... Swedenborg’s
scientific works fell as dead from
* The charge that Swedenborg kept mistresses, which rests on the testimony of Rob
sahm, and the alleged testimony of General Tuxen, is fully examined and proved to be
utterly unfounded in Note 27, Vol. I; the testimony of Gen. Tuxen is further examined in
Document 235, p. 437.
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