SOURCE: White, William. Life of Emanuel Swedenborg: Together with a Brief Synopsis of His Writings, Both Philosophical and Theological. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1866, 272 p.

In the essays which follow, White offers synopses and analyses of three of Swedenborg's greatest scientific-philosohicial works. He also describes the contents of three of Swedenborg's most important works of theology.

Opera Philosophica Et Mineralia.

In attempting to give the reader an idea of the contents and aims of this great work, within the compass of a few paragraphs, one feels extreme difficulty in knowing where or how to begin. It starts so many topics, is so full of the deepest scientific truth, speculates so boldly, and reaches to such heights of subtle thought, that we must necessarily confine ourselves to a very superficial view, and the enumeration of a few of its prominent features.

As before said, the work occupies three large...