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1296 NOTES TO VOLUME II
.
Mr. White in 1856.
"Beneath his strangest affir
mations there lies a substratum
of reason, which redeems him
more or less effectually from the
charge of folly or fanaticism
(II, p. 3). Truth, for its own
sake, he sought through all his
years with a placid deep-flowing
and irresistible persistency ....
He seems to me one of the finest
specimens ofthe Achromatic Mind
working through perceptive facul
ties of singular size and clear
ness, that biography records" (I,
p. 183).
"These passages [ from the ’Eco
nomy,’ &c., on the nature of the
soul] are well worth careful notice;
as they mark a great advance
in Swedenborg’s mind" (I, p. 48).
"In what a different sense Swe
denborg is here [Prologue to
’Animal Kingdom’ ] speaking of
the Soul from that in which he
formerly spoke" (I, p. 151).
Mr. White in 1867.
humbug in these stories: I only
adduce them to prove that he
was liable to see what he wished
to see" (II, p. 664).
"It is surprising to see the
coolness with which he delivers
conjectures as facts .... It is
curious to observe the constant
illusion he lived under, that he
was reasoning and proving when
he was only backing up his ori
ginal assertion with new ones:
his imaginary arguments are no
thing but prolonged affirmations
(II, pp. 665, 671). With such
ponderous and anile stuff did
Swedenborg belabour his adver
saries" (II, p. 515).
"Seven years before, Sweden
borg had settled what the Soul
was; he had pronounced it ’the
last and subtilest part of the
Body.’ He came therefore to
Anatomy, not for instruction,
but for confirmation" (I, pp. 131 ,
132).
III.
MR. WHITE ON SWEDENBORG’S "CONJUGIAL LOVE."
Part II of Swedenborg’s work on "Conjugial Love" is entitled:
"The Pleasures of Insanity respecting Scortatory Love." In referring
to this in his Life of Swedenborg, published in 1856, Mr. White
says : "This portion of the treatise on ’Conjugial Love’ has subjected
Swedenborg to some ’gross calumny,’ which, if sincere, could only
have arisen from a very superficial acquaintance with the principles
of the author; and yet it is hardly possible for a man to write on
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