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Y DEAR FRIEND:—I have not lost sight of my subject, as you doubtless by this time suspect, and we shall soon return to it. But, as I told you in my first letter, my nervous force is very much abated at present, and I am obliged to write not exactly as I would, but as my defective energy permits me. Besides, even if my nerves were unimpaired, it would be within the strict logic of my theme to hold a little discourse with you about Swedenborg and the relation of my thought to his books, since he is the only man, as it seems to me, in human history who has shed any commanding or decisive light on the physiology of the soul. That is to say, his books set before you, as no other books have the least pretension to do, certain of spiritual observation and experience which must, if you read them with interested attention, very soon convince you that you, like all other men, have hitherto utterly misconceived the function of selfhood