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Rh in man, and hence have attributed an original or causative influence, instead of a purely ancillary or ministerial one, to morality in human affairs. Observe what I say. It is exclusively these facts of spiritual observation and experience, recounted by Swedenborg, which produce the effect in question, and not the least any reasoning of his own in regard to the facts. For this is what Swedenborg never does, namely, reason about the things he professes to have learned from angels and spirits. It may betoken great wisdom or great imbecility in him to your mind that he does not; but such, nevertheless, is the fact. He never once, so far as I have observed, has attempted to throw a persuasive light upon the things he professes to have heard and seen among his angelic acquaintance.

Indeed, his own intellectual relation to the facts is left altogether undetermined in his books. There can be no doubt that the things he learned diffused an atmosphere of great peace and sweetness in his breast, and this makes his books the most heavenly reading I know; but there is no sign extant, that I can see, of any intellectual quickening being produced by them, on his part, in regard to the history or the prospects of the race. I am not going to be so dull, therefore, as to promise you the very same intellectual results that I get from Swedenborg's books, even if you your self actually have recourse to them. Indeed, multi-