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PHILOSOPHYWilliam Alger of Boston the researches recently pub- lished of German and other European scholars into the merits of Swe- denborgs cosmogony as also of his psychology and philosophy in gen- eral. See article by the astronomer Nyren of Pultowa Russia on Swedenborg and the Nebular Hypothesis in the Vierteljahrschrift der AsPionomischen Gesellschaft Leipzig Si articles on Sweden- borg and Kant by Prof. Vaihinger of the University of Halle in the Kantstudien and the article by Max Heinze Member of the Royal Academy of Science of Saxony on Kants Vorlesungen uber Metaphysic showing the impress of Swedenborg upon Kants mind and teaching notwithstanding all the assumed persiflage of the Dreams of Visionary etc in Abhandlungen der Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenchaften Philologisch-historische Klasse pp ff. Leipzig etc. While we must not overlook the notable exceptions to this general neglect of Swedenborgs scientific works in those productions of avowed Newchurchmen the magnificent translations by Wilkin- son and Strutt of England of the fragments of the philosophical and anatomical series Generative Organs Posthumous Tracts Outlines of the Infinite by James John Garth Wilkinson Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London Miscellaneous Obser- vations by Charles Edward Strutt. prev next |