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 higher problems. One may more easily understand his life and labors when one places his achievements in Anatomy and Physiology in juxtaposition with those in Geology, Mechanics, Cosmogony, and Physics. With this as a background his whole endeavor becomes somewhat more intelligible. He sought to find the one principle of the universe and of life in the whole. He thought that he had found this original principle in the motion, the tremulation of the first particles. This fundamental view of things led him always further to an almost all-sided investigation and to a view of the fabric of Creation wonderfully deep for his time. With this view as a guide he gained knowledge and created theories which could be acknowledged and appreciated only in our own age."

Another section of the manuscript left by Swedenborg as a part of The Animal Kingdom, continues the study of the soul under the title of Rational Psychology:—

"All souls are purely spiritual forms. Thus all minds and their loves are purely spiritual, whether they are good or evil; for a spirit whether good or evil is still purely spirit, or purely mind, and