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1316 NOTES TO VOLUME 11.
VII.
MISTAKES AND UNSUPPORTED ASSERTIONS.
(1.) "In Paris he made the acquaintance of Pierre Varignon, and
at his house met the pleasant Fontenelle" (I, p. 33). There is no
statement on record that Swedenborg ever made the acquaintance
of Fontenelle.
(2.) "Here [at Marburg] Swedenborg made acquaintance with the
great man [the Philosopher Wolf], and chatted, and settled, and re
settled the origin of the universe by ’mathematical method’ to their
perfect satisfaction" (I, p. 80). Swedenborg never mentions having
been at Marburg, or having met the Philosopher Wolf.
(3.) "Bishop Swedberg left a considerable fortune. Swedenborg’s
share added to what he had inherited from his step-mother, placed
him in independence" (I, p. 113). Bishop Swedberg did not leave
a considerable fortune, but died a poor man; see Note 19.
(4.) "Swedenborg told Ferelius, ’that he never washed his face
and hands, and never brushed his clothes ; for no dirt or dust
would stick to him’" (II, 114). Swedenborg did not tell this story
to Ferelius (see Document 267, no. 15 , and also footnote in Vol. II,
p. 561).
(5.) "From internal evidence "The Worship and Love of God’
appears to have been written about this time, viz. 1735” (I, p. 109).
This internal evidence Mr. White has not demonstrated, therefore it
is a mere assertion.
(6.) "In 1740 he was likely at Leipzig, for there appeared ten
Latin verses from his pen celebrating the third centenary of the art
of printing" (I, p. 120). The Latin lines in question appeared for
the first time in an edition of Swedenborg’s Latin poems, published
in 1826 at Stockholm. There is neither external nor internal evidence
that Swedenborg wrote these lines ; nor is there any evidence of any
other kind to prove that he was in Leipzig in 1740.
(7.) "We often think, that the unconscious caricature and the
hardness of many of his subsequent views of the Religion of Protes
tants are to be attributed to the converse and preaching of the
United Brethren in Fetter Lane in those days when his mind was
awakening to an interest in Divine things" (I, p. 242). According
to Swedenborg’s own statement in the "Book of Dreams" he had not
much to do with them ; for the Moravian church, in Document 209,
no. 192, is represented by "the woman, in whose company Sweden
borg was, yet whom he did not approach."
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