[45] Œc. R. A. II., 285: ›Ex his jam sequitur, quod _Anima sit, quae
intelligit, cogitat, judicat, vult, desiderat, imaginatur, cupit,
reminiscitur, videt, audit, gustat, odorat, sentit, loquitur, agit_, — —
—.› See also II., 287.
[46] Œc. R. A. II., No. 160, 161: ›Et haec denique concludit, quod sit
_anima, quae huic fluido (spirituoso) inest_, cujus est determinare in
actum.› II., 165. II., 303: ›Ipsum Fluidum Spirituosum est substantia
eminenter organica suae Animae; uti Oculus est organum visus, Auris
auditus, Lingua gustus, Cerebrum perceptionis omnium›; etc. See also ›The
Brain›, No. 7.
[47] See for example Œc. R. A. II., No. 246: — — — ›sic etiam quod hoc
Fluidum sit Spiritus et Anima sui Corporis›. — — — Œc. R. A. III., No.
317: ›_Anima est purissima essentia animalis, caelestis et spiritualis_,
quae fibram simplicem excitat et simul sanguinem tam candidum quam rubrum
ingreditur.›
[48] See also Œc. R. A. II., No. 348: ›Ex his jam praemissis usque ad
fidem intellectus demonstrari potest, quod _Fluidum Spirituosum humanum_
immunissimum sit ab omni injuria contingentium in regione sublunari;
nec exstinguibile, sed _immortale_, tametsi non per se, _post casum sui
Corporis_. Quod exsolutum a vinculis et laqueis terrestrium in omnem
sui Corporis formam coaliturum sit et victurum vitam omni imaginatione
puriorem. Tum quod nulla sit actiuncula ex consulto, et nulla vocula
ex consensu, in vita ejus corporea, edita, quae non affulgente luce
sapientiae, inhaerenter designatae, tunc ante ejus conscientiae judicium,
distincte compariturae sint›.
[49] Œc. R. A. II., No. 303: ›_usque eodem recidit, sive memoratum
fluidum dicimus Spiritum aut Animam, sive ejus facultatem_ sibi
repraesentandi universum et intuendi fines, nam unum non concipi potest,
quia non datur sine altero.›
[50] J. J. GARTH WILKINSON has published Part I. in an English
translation in 1843, and Parts II. and III. in 1844, London.
[50 b] ›Regnum Animale›, Pars quarta: ›De Sensibus›, publ. by IM. TAFEL,
London, 1848; transl. into English by ENOCH S. PRICE in ›New Philosophy›;
›R. A.›, Pars septima: ›De Anima›, publ. by IM. TAFEL, Tübingen and
London, 1849; transl. into English by FRANK SEWALL, New York, 1887 and
1900.
[51] The words enclosed in parentheses have been added by the author of
this paper to make the meaning more clear, and are unmistakeably inferred
from the connection.
[52] As Professor G. RETZIUS also says in his ›Croonian lecture›,
delivered in London, 1908: ›The theses cited [especially those concerning
the localization of the motor centres in the cerebral cortex] are drawn
up with such precision by SWEDENBORG that they cannot possibly be based
on divination only, but must rest upon a real grasp of natural phenomena
as well as on actual experiments and dissecting work›.
[53] See ›Œconomia Regni Animalis›, I., Nos. 559 _et seqq._; also 571 and
572, and R. VIEUSSENS: ›Neurographia universalis›, Lugduni, 1685, pp.
123, 124, etc.
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