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MR. WHITE. 1329
This resolution, which was moved by the Rev. Augustus Clissold,
was seconded by Mr. Wm. Pickstone, supported by the Rev. Wood
ville Woodman, and carried nemine contradicente.
Such was Mr. White’s connection with spiritism, and such were
his antecedents in 1860 and 1861 to the publication of his works
on Swedenborg in 1867 and 1868. That the events of 1860 and
1861 determined the spirit in which he interpreted the character
and the writings of Swedenborg in 1867 is shown in Chapter XXXVI
of his "Life", entitled "Progress of Swedenborgianism," every word
of which breathes a spirit of hostility and resentment against the
body of New Churchmen who in 1860 and 1861 thwarted his
design upon the Swedenborg Society. This hostility against the
organized New Church warped also his whole presentation of the
intellectual and moral character of Swedenborg; and it likewise
induced him to stultify himself by blackening everything that he
had said in 1856 in favour of Swedenborg’s character and writings.
In presenting his sullied image of Swedenborg in 1867 , Mr. White
was a diligent collector of the facts respecting his life, and he also
quoted at great length from his writings; yet behind every favourable
remark respecting his life and writings there lurk a slur and a
sneer; so that Mr. White may be compared to an artist who with
one hand endeavours with considerable skill to present the genuine
features of a man, but with the other sullies, distorts, and blackens
these very features.
Such then is the nature of Mr. White’s "Life of Swedenborg"
published in 1867, when examined in the light of the life which he
published in 1856, and also in the light of his transactions with the
Swedenborg Society in 1860 and 1861 .
X.
MR. WHITE’S DOCUMENTS.
On making a thorough analysis of the edition of Mr. White’s
"Life of Swedenborg" of 1867, for the purposes of the present
Note, we met there with some additional documents which in the
edition of 1868 from which we collected Document 294, were either
curtailed, or omitted. These omissions we herewith supply:
(1.) Bishop Swedberg to Charles_XII.*
"Stockholm, May 22, 1709.
"As I am minded to allow my son Emanuel Swedberg to travel
in foreign lands for the sake of his studies, which he has hitherto
* See edition of 1867, Vol. I, p. 30.
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