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thought of Him his whole frame, or membranous and sensitive system, will awfully, yet sweetly tremble, from the inmost to the outermost principles of its being."
But in the same year with the Principia Swedenborg had continued his investigation of the questions of his time in his Sketch of a Philosophical Argument on the Infinite and the Final Cause of Creation; and on the Intercourse between the Soul and the Body. In this essay his unswerving faith in Revelation is conspicuous all through, and with it a recognition of something higher than merely natural reason. In the Preface he says—
"Philosophy if it be truly rational can never be contrary to Revelation. . . . The end of reason can be no other than that man may perceive the things that are revealed and those that are created: thus the rational cannot be contrary to the Divine, since the end why reason is given us is that we may be empowered to perceive that there is a God and to know that He is to be worshipped. If reason be the mean, endowed with the faculty and power of perceiving, and if the actual perception be the end, then the mean, in
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