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Show EMERSON ON SWEDENBORC Emerson says of immortality, that the most remarkable step in the religious history of recent nger id that made by the genius of Emanuel Swedenborg, who described the faculties facul-ties and affections of man with the hard realism of an astronomsr do-scribing do-scribing the suiib and planets of our ays tern, and explained his opinion of the history and destiny of souls in a narrative form as of one who had gone in a trance iuto the society of other worlds. Swedenborg had a vast genius, and announced many things true and admirable, though always clothed in somewhat sad and Stygian colors; and these truths, paicingout of his system into general circulation, are now met with every day qualifying the views and creeds of all churches and of men of no church. |