IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL
tains, and that the Gentile and the stranger shall come to it to pay their worship."
To quote more from this remarkable work of the Economy of the Animal Kingdom would exceed the proper limits of this small volume. Of the literary merits of the work S. T. Coleridge said—"I remember nothing in Lord Bacon superior, few passages equal, either in depth of thought, or in richness, dignity, and felicity of diction, or in the weightiness of the truths contained."[1] And Dr. Spurgin, formerly President of the Royal College of Physicians in London, pronounced the Part on the Soul " a production unparalleled for excellence in the whole compass of human philosophy."[2]
But with the preparation and printing of the Economy of the Animal Kingdom in 1740 and 1741, Swedenborg's studies in this direction were by no means at an end. Though he returned to his duties in the Royal College in November, 1740, fulfilling these duties anew for two years and a half, he had already prescribed for himself a
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