men are also found by whom they can be properly understood and correctly translated for the English reader. In the Rev. Mr. Clissold and in Mr. Wilkinson we recognize, from their successful labours, every guarantee and assurance that justice, both as to the editing of these manuscripts in Latin, and the translating of them into English, will be done to Swedenborg. It becomes, then, in our belief, the duty of every well-wisher to the cause of genuine philosophy, and especially of every member of the New Church, to assist the Association" of which these gentlemen are distinguished members. This assistance may be rendered chiefly by pecuniary donations, or by purchase of their stock, and of the publications about to be issued. As the expenses attending the operations of the "Association" are, at the present period, very considerable, we urge with peculiar emphasis the claims of the Association upon the attention of our readers.

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The Introductory Remarks on the Economy," &c., by Mr. Wilkinson, are intended to acquaint the reader with the general philosophical principles of Swedenborg, especially as exhibited in this work. The able writer has admirably succeeded in his attempt. Long and patient assiduity in studying and translating the "Animal Kingdom," and in assisting to edit the Economy," &c., has prepared his mind for a critical analysis of Swedenborg's philosophical doctrines. These "Remarks," &c., (which may be purchased separate from the "Economy," &c.) are extremely valuable, and will be read with great profit and pleasure,with profit, in being so ably introduced to an acquaintance with the author's leading philosophical principles; and with pleasure, in seeing that these principles are so consonant to every rational perception, and so well established in the order of God's works in nature. The great beauty of Swedenborg's philosophy is, that it follows nature," ad naturam," as Seneca says, "non ad opiniones." It closely follows the order which the Creator has introduced into his works; it abhors the vagaries of mere hypothesis, and the phantasies of metaphysics, which have nothing analogous or correspondent, either in the outer world of nature or in the inner world of the animal kingdom and its economy, to rest upon. No philosopher has ever so closely come up to Bacon's idea of the interpres naturæ, (of the "interpreter of nature") which is the proper office of philosophy, as Swedenborg.

"In the present volumes," says Mr. Wilkinson, "we introduce the English reader to the first of those great works, in which the principles derived from anatomical and general experience are applied by Swedenborg to elicit the uses of the human body. The preliminary observations which we have to offer, are chiefly intended to convey to the student a just notion of the point of view from which these works should be regarded; to supply answers to certain objections, and correction to some specious

but common errors, which stand in the way of a proper understanding of their doctrines and position; and, in short, to predispose the mind of the reader, in a general manner, for what, he may be assured, is a new study, for the peculiarities of which his previous knowledge can hardly have prepared him.

"The works of Swedenborg divide themselves into two classes, viz., a scientific class, and a theological; and the scientific works (with which we are now engaged) are again divisible into practical and theoretical. Whatever may be the merits of the practical portion, it is not to come before us at present. To examine the relations and value which it maintained in its own age, would be interesting in itself, and particularly desirable as filling up some details in the portraiture of Swedenborg's genius. But the task requires a study sui generis, upon which no inquirer has entered. The field of research is comparatively humble, although the labour would be great. No doubt it will sooner or later be explored, and when it is, and not before, we may speak with certainty of Swedenborg's place among the scientific men of the eighteenth century.

"But we are now to view him in connection with labours which are more familiar and of higher import; and by which he takes rank, not among the scientific worthies of the last age, but with the great spirits of all time. For it is the theoretical division of his scientific works which introduces him to the English reader under the new guise of an interpreter of nature. And here we may premise, that although we term these works scientific, (deriving the name from the basis they rest upon, and the limits which they observe,) yet they are properly philosophical also, since they rise through the particular sciences, to that universal science which alone is philosophy. For as the physical doctrines of Swedenborg are the reconciliation or at-one-ment of philosophy with science, so these works may be designated from either term: let it only be borne in mind, that they are not philosophical in any sense in which philosophy is considered independent of physical science; nor scientific, so far as science is not permitted to obtain light and life from a real philosophy."-pp. 1, 2.

The following interesting topics are discussed throughout these Remarks," &c., by adducing which the reader's attention will not only be attracted to the work, but his desire to read and study it will, we think, be powerfully awakened :-" Swedenborg and Bacon; the use and limit of methods; the comprehensiveness of Swedenborg's method; the relation of anatomy to medicine- to philosophy-to mechanics; general experience; different kinds of experience; philosophical value of the practical arts; principles and experience; the human form; order of studying the sciences; Swedenborg's induction; sources of suggestion; concrete use of philosophical terms; the ground-plan of his scientific works; matter and body not always identical; metaphysics in peril; use of Swedenborg's naturalism; spiritual and natural experience both required; objects of sense not objects of knowledge; laws always embodied causes; all science is either arithmetical or geometrical; imagination and reason; Swedenborg not an intellectualist; philosophy and theology connected; certainty deducible from moral grounds; Swedenborg's natural theology real; knowledge of God and nature

experimental; Swedenborg's relations to the future; his contentedness of mind; the humanity of Swedenborg's genius."

These are the important subjects discussed in the "Introductory Remarks on the Economy of the Animal Kingdom;" and we have no doubt that all who feel an interest in the attainment of knowledge which is "deep and clear," will be delighted to read them. We shall close this brief notice by extracting the concluding paragraphs respecting the humanity of Swedenborg's genius:"

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"There never was a man who belonged less than he to his own age or nation, notwithstanding he depended greatly upon the physical knowledge of his contemporaries, was widely read in philosophy also, and made free use of whatever he found in other writers that was true and to the purpose. But his genius was more than his materials; materiem superabat opus.' He wielded with ease the solid masses of learning, and they obeyed new motions, and ran in systematic orbits. The naked rocks of science received a quickening climature, and greenness and life came upon them. The season was ripe, and the personal conditions fulfilled, and the willing earth yielded her increase as to the Jews of old. The acquired goodness of the individual became the spring of his genius, and hence he stood related to the world as the creation of God, and to man as His universal creature, and went out from the soil that bore him, so that Scandinavia was his mother no longer. He became the example of a nobler energy than that which carried the Swedish kings over hostile Europe; an energy which sustained him to bear the lamp of humanizing science into the darkest places of the earth, where the phantoms of superstition terrify, and obscene atheism flits around on subtlest pinions. He shewed a faith in the real God, and in the spiritual existence and interests of mankind, to which the profoundest homage of the North to her mythologic Odin, and her chiefs' and warriors' fastest belief in the promised Valhalla, are but weak, shadowy, and unsubstantial. The triumphs he gained in the name of truth, and that his writings will gain in the coming ages, are fraught with importance, which far eclipses the proudest victories of his martial countrymen. For it was his happy lot, not to fight temporal battles for Protestantism, or to be the prop of an old religion, whose very victories often precluded its communion with the Prince of Peace; but to be the means of averting destruction from the whole race of man, and of securing to all a hold on Christianity which can never fail: and in the course of this instrumentality, to walk undismayed in that other world which has been lost to knowledge for thousands of years, or preserved only in the unwritten parts of imagination, the misunderstood depth of ancient fable, or the narrations of the earlier poets. Hence he is the first of the moderns to penetrate the secrets of nature, the first also to be admitted to the hidden things of the spiritual world: the two spheres of knowledge being realized at once; wherefore henceforth he is our earnest, that since we are now on the right track, and the works of God are become our heritage, the progression in both may be practical and unending.

"And thus humanity has completed its wanderings, from the warm suns of Asia to the shade and rigours of the north; from the land whose 'gold is good, ' to 'a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.' And still the Divine Love is with us, working an outward omnipresence in every zone, under the Boreal skies as in Eden itself, and at length knitting up even the filmy gleams of the intellectual Aurora into a sun-like focus of glorious splendor."-pp. 85, 86.

Poetry.

IN MEMORY,

Of a beloved Brother, who was removed into the Eternal State, August 22nd, 1846.

And art thou gone-for ever gone from earth,
Brother beloved? Yes, in a higher sphere
Thy blessed spirit walks. No more with us,
In mortal scenes of joy or woe, wilt thou
The social circle join. But tears of bliss,
Not bitterness, for thy celestial change
Should flow. And yet 'tis hard to stem
Frail nature's course;-hard to forget at once
Thy dear companionship,-thy childhood-youth-
And the bright prospects which had gilded here
Thy hopeful years. How are the joyous lights
Of thy short pilgrimage by Sorrow's shades
Soon overcast!

Thy lovely head reclines, and, in my face
Wistfully looking, "Brother," I hear thee say,
In lisping tongue-thy little hands the while
Outstretched in glee.

"Tis changed:-I see thee now
In Youth, with busy look, and in thy hands
The daily lesson. To thy opening mind
Knowledge her ancient and expanding page
Displays: nor on that page with careless eye
Thou look'st-aspiring to the laurelled ranks
Of famed Apollo's sons.

Towards Manhood now

I see thy hastening growth. To civil use

Thy hand industrious turns; whilst in thy path
Religion's holy lamp its radiance sheds.

Brother, and thou must drink. I see thee now
With drooping efforts. But thy patient spirit
Meekly attunes itself to pious strains

Of Resignation,-from thy plaintive Muse
Flows forth the note of praise!

Apace, beneath

The burning stroke triumphant, shrinks thy form,---
Quivers thy nerve-departs thy flattering bloom.
Thy cheek is worn, and wasted is thy strength;—
And, on the verge of manhood-when the stream
Of Life flows buoyant-with last accents uttering
Thy firmest Faith and Hope-the silver chord
Is softly loosed-for ever thou art gone!

And now the eye of Faith to that of Sense
Succeeds. I see thee in a happier state,
Where Virtue, purified, in works of love
And wisdom triumphs; where is no more death,
Nor pain, nor sorrow, nor the keener pang
Of separation. In immortal youth
There shalt thou live-never to us return.
But, rapturous prospect! may our spirits rise,
And join thee in those everlasting realms !

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

EXTRACTS FROM A RECENT WORK

BY MRS. CHILD.

To the Editor of the Intellectual Repository.
DEAR SIR,-The following extracts are
from a recent work by Mrs. Child,
"Letters from New York." I met with
them in "Keene's Bath Journal," and
thinking it might be gratifying to the
readers of the Intellectual Repository to
see that that gifted authoress is a re-
ceiver of our doctrines, and further, that
the extracts themselves contain illustra-
tions of New Church truths that will
delight by their intrinsic excellence, I
have forwarded them for insertion in your
Magazine.-I am, &c.,
Kersley.

W. W.

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R. A.

MUSIC, ITS CORRESPONDENCE. "Music is the soprano, the feminine principle, the heart of the universe..... While I listened, music was to my soul what the atmosphere is to my body; it was the breath of my inward life. I felt more deeply than ever that music is the highest symbol of the Infinite and Holy. I heard it moan plaintively over the discords of society, and the dimmed beauty of humanity. It filled me with inexpressible longing to see man at one with Nature and with God; and it thrilled me with joyful prophecy that the hope would pass into glorious fulfilment.

"In written music, there are signs for intonation, and signs for duration; intonation relating to space, or the affections, and duration, to time, or truth. Soprano