The Moetal Remains of Swedenborg 



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the assistance of an artist, as His did, the scientific exactitude in this 



than the esthetical point of view. 



case being much more important 



And in order to be uninfluenced, as 



long as possible, by reminiscences 



of portraits of Swedenborg, I had, 



ever since the examination had 



been proposed, purposely avoided 



putting anything of that kind before 



my eyes. After having fastened a 



number of plaster pyramids upon 



a east of the cranium, and having 



carefully seen to it that their height 



agreed with the figures in Tab. 



IV^, and after iiaving fitted plaster 



casts of eye-balls in their proper 



position in the orbits, as is seen in 



fig. 18, I covered the whole cast 



with modelling wax in a layer thick 



enough to reacli but not cover the 



points of the pyramids. The result 



was a face-mask, certainly of a very 



undecided type, but which, 1 was sure, in respect to certain portions 



(forehead, upper part of the nasal ridge, etc.), 

 liad approximately the same configuration as the 

 face of the man whose cranium was in my hand. 

 Fig. 19 shows this face-mask after all the parts 

 which, as shown above, must on the ground of 

 their great variability be regarded as less to be 

 depended upon, had been subtracted. The re- 

 maining portions, on the contrary, may be con- 

 sidered as fully reHable for testimony, and they 

 have therefore, during the continued model- 

 ling, been left entirely undisturbed, with the ex- 

 Fig. 19. The reconstructed ceptioii of their having afterwards been corn- 

 soft parts, so far as they i , , ..i i i i- i i • i i 



are rehabie. plctcd With eyc-brows and some shght wrinkles 



of the skin. 



Having arrived so far, it was impossible to proceed further with 

 the work without making use of the accessible portraits of Sweden- 

 borg. There could now, of course, be no question of a portrait like- 



Fig. 18. Plaster cast with reconstruction points. 



