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the greatest prohability, never been disturbed from^their ori- 

 ginal positions, and tliese bones must consequently be regarded 

 as having been Swedenborg's. 



The skull, which is in the coftin, is undoubtedly identical 

 with that skull, which, after a plaster cast had been taken, 

 according to trustworthy statements, was deposited in the coffin 

 in 1823. - 



The anatomical investigation of the skull and the exa- 

 mination of its physiognomical characters, an account of which 

 is given in the latter part of this work, have led to the following safe 

 conclusions: 



Neither the state of preser^-ation of the skull, nor its 

 general form, its characters of sex and age, and anthropologi- 

 cal measurements, can be advanced as testimony against its 

 being genuine, but, on the contrary, they are in full agreement 

 with such a supposition. 



The dimensions and general form of the preserved ge- 

 nuine lower jawbone, and especially the condition of main- 

 tenance and arrangement of its teeth and alveolar processes, 

 are in the best harmony with the corresponding parts of the 

 skull (and the cast of 1823) and consequently afford a very 

 good argument for their belonging together. 



The individual physiognomical characters of the skull, 

 particularly the dimensional relations between the different 

 parts of the face, in so far as they appear on viewing the 

 skull, or by means of the plastic reconstruction, show no im- 

 portant divergence from the existing likenesses of Sweden- 

 BOEtt, but, on the contrary, these characters of the skull, as 

 to various points, speak in favor of its having been Sweden- 

 borg's. 



In the preceding pages I have already pointed out the difficulty, 

 not to say impossibility, of arriving, in a question of this sort, at an 

 absolutely infallible result in a positive direction. To prove that a given 

 cranium cannot be that of a specified person may at times be a re- 

 latively easy task, while the demonstration of the true identity of a 

 skull must be, almost without exception, limited to a calculation of 

 probabilities, a proA'ing that there exist no invalidating reasons, and a 



